Shell Oil Spill Dumps Thousands Of Barrels Of Crude Into Gulf Of Mexico
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A 2,100-barrel oil spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico forced Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday to shut in all wells that flow to its Brutus platform, federal regulators said.
The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said a 2 mile by 13 mile (about 3 km by 21 km) sheen was visible in the sea about 97 miles off the Louisiana coast.
About 88,200 gallons was reportedly released from the pipeline, the Coast Guard said, adding the source of the discharge was reported as secured.
The sheen is near Shell’s Glider Field, a group of four subsea wells whose production flows through a subsea manifold to the Brutus platform, which sits in water with a depth of 2,900 feet (884 m).
Du pétrole s’évade dans le golf de mexico… #shell #pétrole
Via ▻http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jason-najum/shell-oil-spill_b_10026514.html «Lost In The Spectacle Of ’News’ Was Another Oil Spill We Barely Noticed»
Last week another major oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. A leak from a Shell oil rig released approximately 90,000 gallons (over 340,000 liters) into the sea, creating a floating slick of oil the size of Manhattan. And I didn’t hear about until today. Did you?
