Gulf Coast Oil Spill May Be Largest Since 2010 BP Disaster

[Rhiannon12866]

LLOG reports as much as 9,350 barrels spilled last week

Release dwarfed by multimillion-barrel Deepwater Horizon spill

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP Plc’s Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig and killed 11 people.

LLOG Exploration Co. reported 7,950 to 9,350 barrels of oil were released Oct. 11 to Oct. 12 from subsea infrastructure about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southeast of Venice, Louisiana, according to the company and the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. That would make it the largest spill in more than seven years, BSEE data show, even though it’s a fraction of the millions of barrels ejected in the 2010 incident.

“Way offshore, the oil had time to dissipate before it could cause lots of damage,” Edward Overton, emeritus professor in the Environmental Sciences Department at Louisiana State University, said by telephone. “I’m sure there’s some impact associated with this spill out in the deep water, but I don’t think there was enough for the oil to sink.”

The LLOG spill was triggered by a fracture in a flowline jumper located on the sea floor, Rick Fowler, the company’s vice president for deepwater projects, said in an email Tuesday. That’s a short pipeline used to connect a well to nearby subsea structures. Multiple barriers placed on either side of the fracture stopped the release, but the the flowline jumper hadn’t yet been repaired, he said.


More: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-may-be-largest-since-2010-bp-disaster

[bdtrppr6]

1. what would you bet

that LLOG is BP in disguise somehow? just off the cuff?

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Ah ha! I think you may be on to something!

Sneaky bastards! And they haven't learned a thing...

[diva77]

3. k&r for exposure This is FUBAR

[Rhiannon12866]

4. And I had the news on all evening and didn't hear this mentioned once

Just more of the same, the stupid and offensive things Trump said and did today.

[diva77]

5. guess I'll be making yet more calls to congresspeople and media tomorrow

[Rhiannon12866]

6. There's just so much material every day, they can barely keep up

And we know that's the story that gets ratings.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. No mention on their web site.

Thanks for posting that update, Rhiannon. Could not find any reference to the incident on LLOG's web site at http://llog.com/. May be a typical reaction, like of most of our industries when accidents, chemical releases and spills happen: "nothing to see here".

All of these chemical releases are bad for our ecosystems and the public has become numb to them (just like our current political disasters).

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Well, it's a reliable source and they updated it so they would have made corrections

You're probably right given the second subtitle "Release dwarfed by multimillion-barrel Deepwater Horizon spill." What's more oil in that beleaguered region? It's not nearly as much as before.

[diva77]

9. kick

Oil spills have been normalized and are off the radar. Probably for every one we hear about, there are lots we don't hear about.