Potential of 1.1 Million Gallons of Oil Spilled Near Coast of Plaquemines

OIL SPILL –

  • A Clean Gulf Associates 95-foot response vessel skims crude oil approximately 4 miles southeast of South Pass Louisiana on November 17, 2023. A Unified Command composed of the Coast Guard, Main Pass Oil Gathering Company, LLC, and the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office is coordinating measures to assess, contain and mitigate the impact of the spill. U.S. Coast Guard photo, courtesy Clean Gulf Associates
    A Clean Gulf Associates 95-foot response vessel skims crude oil approximately 4 miles southeast of South Pass Louisiana on November 17, 2023. A Unified Command composed of the Coast Guard, Main Pass Oil Gathering Company, LLC, and the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office is coordinating measures to assess, contain and mitigate the impact of the spill. U.S. Coast Guard photo, courtesy Clean Gulf Associates
Late last week, the United States Coast Guard identied an “oil discharge” near a pipeline system owned by the Main Pass Oil Gathering (MPOG) company o 2the southern coast of Plaquemines Parish. According to a United States Coast Guard press release published on November 20, monitoring e rts and “initial engineering calculations” show that 1.1 million gallons of oil could have been released into…

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