WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A Democratic congressman Friday requested to see compliance documents for the Mariner Energy oil platform that caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico a day earlier.

In a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Friday, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., asked for "prompt attention" to his request for documents pertaining to inspection and compliance at Mariner Energy's Vermilion 380 platform, The Hill reported.

"This incident in roughly 350 feet of water highlights all too clearly that the risks of offshore drilling are not limited to deep water," Rahall wrote, referring to the BP oil spill that caused nearly 5 million barrels of oil to flow into the gulf this spring and summer.

Eleven workers were killed in the Deepwater Horizon explosion that set off the largest maritime spill in the history of the petroleum industry. No injuries or oil spill was reported in Thursday's Vermilion 380 incident.

Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, responded to the letter Friday, saying, "We will use all available resources to ensure that we find out what happened, how it happened, and what enforcement action should be taken if any laws or regulations were violated."