Federal and state investigators on Monday were focusing on a 41-year-old pipeline as the likely source of an oil spill that killed wildlife and fouled the coast of southern California, and an approaching storm threatened cleanup efforts.
The weekend spill sent 3,000 barrels of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean. Authorities identified the line as the San Pedro Bay Pipeline that connects an offshore oil production platform to a site in Eureka, California.with some 13 square miles of ocean and portions of its coastline "covered in oil," said Mayor Kim Carr.
Officials identified the platform and pipeline operator as Beta Offshore, a California subsidiary of Houston-based offshore crude oil producer Amplify Energy CorpAmplify on Monday did not return a call seeking information. On Sunday, Amplify executive Martyn Willsher said a pipeline carrying oil from the Elly offshore platform had been shut off and its remaining oil suctioned out.
Regulators have failed to address the risks from idled pipelines, platforms and other infrastructure on the sea floor, the watchdog U.S. Government Accountability Office said this year.
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