Divers at the site of an ongoing oil spill off the Louisiana coast have identified the source as one-foot diameter pipeline sheared in half by Hurricane Ida. Two 95-foot response vessels are attempting to contain and recover oil from the water’s surface.
Talos Energy, the Houston-based company currently paying for the cleanup, said in a statement issued Sunday evening that the busted pipeline does not belong to them.
So far, the growing spill appears to have remained out to sea and has not impacted the Louisiana shoreline. There is not yet any estimate for how much oil was in the water, but recent satellite images reviewed by AP on Saturday appeared to show the slick drifting more than a dozen miles eastward along the Gulf coast.
The Bay Marchand spill is one of dozens of reported environmental hazards state and federal regulators are tracking in Lousiana and the Gulf following the Category 4 hurricane that made landfall at Port Fourchon a week ago. The region is a major production center of the U.S. petrochemical industry.
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