Posted on 05/17/2016 9:39:24 PM PDT by Roos_Girl
Shell has said it has begun work to repair a fault in a flowline that has resulted in around 2,000 barrels worth of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.
More than 88,000 gallons of oily-water mixture has been released from the Glider Field, a group of four underwater oil wells located around 97 miles south of Port Fourchon in Louisiana. The company said it suspects a line connecting these wells to a Shell platform leaked oil on Thursday, creating a 13 mile-wide slick on the surface of the water.
Shell said the oil is not expected to reach the shoreline and that no fisheries have been closed. The company said vessels and aircraft have been deployed to mop up the spill.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I suspect there will be a complete overreaction and the media will translate 2000 barrels into 155,201 milliliters.
.. about the same amount Venezuela loses into the Caribbean every week due to negligence and poor maintenance. Hold your ideological soulmates to the same standards you do Shell, EPA.
@ 60 degrees F.
suppose obunghole will fine Shell like he did BP
A mere drop in the ocean.
There is bacteria that loves this stuff. Crude has been spewing from oceanic vents since time began.
>There is bacteria that loves this stuff. Crude has been spewing from oceanic vents since time began.
How’s that? There weren’t dinosaurs at the dawn of Time /s
To this day the hotrodders still call it Dino oil!
I robot is Tod Rundgren ??
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