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9th July 2013, 04:25 PM
Coast Guard: Crew Loses Control of Natural Gas Well, Sheen in the Gulf
Posted Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 by NoDef Staff (http://www.noladefender.com/node/9238)
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Natural gas is flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from an oil and natural gas production platform off the coast of Plaquemines Parish, where the U.S. Coast Guard says a crew lost control of a well on Tuesday. Crew was safely evacuated after the well was unable to be brought back under control, according to the Coast Guard.
The well, located 74 miles southwest of Port Fourchon, is owned Energy Resource Technology Gulf of Mexico LLC, who reported the incident. Workers were looking to temporary plug the well when they lost control of the well, according to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard could not confirm how many workers were evacuated.
The cause of the event has yet to be determined, the Coast Guard said.
ERT is "actively working to plug the well," according to Jonathan Lally, spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard's 8th District. Lally did not have information on when the well might be plugged.
Two other wells were actively producing on the same platform, but were shut-in following the incident.
Coast Guard conducted an overflight, and found a rainbow sheen about 4 miles wide by 3/4 of a mile long coming from the platform. No details about a response plan to the pollution, or a plan to stop the well were immediately available from the Coast Guard.
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Posted Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 by NoDef Staff (http://www.noladefender.com/node/9238)
http://noladefender.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/article_image/prodplatform.jpg
photo via EPA
Natural gas is flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from an oil and natural gas production platform off the coast of Plaquemines Parish, where the U.S. Coast Guard says a crew lost control of a well on Tuesday. Crew was safely evacuated after the well was unable to be brought back under control, according to the Coast Guard.
The well, located 74 miles southwest of Port Fourchon, is owned Energy Resource Technology Gulf of Mexico LLC, who reported the incident. Workers were looking to temporary plug the well when they lost control of the well, according to the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard could not confirm how many workers were evacuated.
The cause of the event has yet to be determined, the Coast Guard said.
ERT is "actively working to plug the well," according to Jonathan Lally, spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard's 8th District. Lally did not have information on when the well might be plugged.
Two other wells were actively producing on the same platform, but were shut-in following the incident.
Coast Guard conducted an overflight, and found a rainbow sheen about 4 miles wide by 3/4 of a mile long coming from the platform. No details about a response plan to the pollution, or a plan to stop the well were immediately available from the Coast Guard.
http://www.noladefender.com/content/coast-g45uard-c67rew-loses-control-natural-gas-well-sheen-gulf