After discovering an oil slick eight miles off the Texas coast more than a week ago, federal and state officials say they’ve determined it is coming from an abandoned platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
The state of Texas was notified July 14 and video posted on social media showed liquid spewing out of a pipe that is a flowline riser which carries fluid at the platform, reported Bloomberg.
There was “a discharge of natural gas, salt water and condensate coming from a recirculation line above the water at the platform, creating a light silvery sheen,” Ensign William McCown, a public affairs officer with the US Coast Guard, said on Sunday. Federal and state officials “are working closely to ensure a plan is enacted to mitigate the pollution threat in a safe and effective manner,” he said.
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