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Houston (ANTARA News / Reuters) - An inverted shallow sea oil drilling near Morgan City, Louisiana, United States when pulled into dock repairs, the Coast Guard said Friday.

Nobody injured, and shipping was not affected by the accident - which occurred at Charenton shipping lane south of U.S. 90, near Morgan City, said Coast Guard spokesman Mike O `Berry.

"This is not the main waterway," he said. "No one was in drilling it. Drilling is being withdrawn."

The accident happened after the explosion of 20 April in the Transocean Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. As many as 11 people were killed in the accident.

Drilling was drowning and fatal form of an oil spill, which has not been able to overcome this setakat.

The accident occurred Friday at a drilling along 210 feet of gas and oil drilling shallow water and swamps, the Coast Guard said.

Drilling has a tank with a capacity of 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel but it only contains 200 gallons of fuel when it overturned drilling.

Controller of explosives placed in the surrounding oil spill as a precautionary measure, the Coast Guard said.

O `Berry says it is owned by T. drilling Moore Services in Franklin, Louisiana. Telegon to the company was not answered.