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    Default A new leak in the Gulf of Mexico

    At the moment it is a small leak, and it is coming from a "shut-in-well" feeding into an old pipeline. This particular area of the Gulf of Mexico is relatively close to the Louisiana coastline, and the two primary oil fields are called East Cameron and West Cameron.

    The production area is OLD and although the amount of oil and gas extracted from this area has only partially been completed, it is possible that there can be many more seeps and leakages from closed down production and for these to potentially break through and reach the surface.

    CAMERON, La. (AP) — Federal regulators say a pipeline is leaking natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.

    The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the U.S. Coast Guard are responding to the leak, reported Wednesday, in waters roughly 30 miles southwest of Cameron, Louisiana.

    Federal authorities say the leak is less than a mile southeast of Platform West Cameron-165, currently shut, in about 48 feet of water. The sheen was last reported to be about 1 mile across and 10 miles long, and the operator estimated the spill volume to be roughly 750 gallons.

    The pipeline is operated by Houston-based Kinetica Partners LLC.

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    This is the WELL and PIPELINE Map off Cameron, Louisiana (RED are the pipelines, black are the well locations, green demarks the "field", the number of the well/field is shown)


    The well/pipeline "165" is shown near the lower left of the image above.
    Last edited by Bob; 23rd January 2017 at 17:09.

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