according to Bloomberg<\/a>. The spill, which consists of a 4-mile black sheen and a 10-mile rainbow sheen, is located in federal waters off Port Fourchon, Louisiana, said Sam Jones, head of the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\u201cThat\u2019s big,\u201d Jones said in an interview on Saturday. \u201cIt\u2019s the biggest one out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Coast Guard said in a statement that crude is believed to be coming from a pipeline owned by Houston-based oil and gas exploration company Talos Energy, adding the agency was in the preliminary stages of investigation. In response, Talos said that while it’s leading a response to the spill, it denied being responsible, saying the spill was coming from an unknown source in an area where it ceased production in 2017.<\/p>\n
Photos captured by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aircraft shows a black slick\u00a0floating in the Gulf of Mexico on\u00a0Aug. 31.
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\u201cExtensive field observations indicate that Talos assets are not the source,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cTalos will continue to work closely with the U.S. Coast Guard and other state and federal agencies to identify the source of the release and coordinate a successful response.\u201d<\/p>\n
Talos said it deployed two 95-foot response vessels to conduct oil recovery operations at the site as well as an additional vessel and divers to help locate the source.<\/p>\n
The “big” spill wasn’t the only one: Jones said his agency had received 265 reports of spills and other incidents related to Ida, including 32 that appeared to be serious. Among them were two underwater pipelines, apparently transporting gas, and a gas well that blew in Three Bayou Bay in Jefferson Parish. The agency is investigating who owns those assets, Jones said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, multiple releases of crude have been reported in the Gulf of Mexico, including one near an offshore rig in the gulf, according to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.\u00a0 The agency has reported more than 100 incidents of spills and other toxic releases as Ida\u2019s environmental impact in a petrochemical corridor packed with hazardous-chemical plants and refineries begins to become apparent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe type of accident we are seeing is preventable and shouldn\u2019t be allowed to happen,\u201d <\/strong>said Naomi Yoder, a staff scientist at Healthy Gulf, a New Orleans-based environmental group that has reported several spills to authorities in the wake of Ida. \u201cIs it something we are going to be able to repair or is it something that will be a very long-term process?\u201d<\/p>\nHurricane Ivan in 2004 triggered an underwater oil spill that is still leaking, Yoder said.<\/p>\n
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