The U.S. Coast Guard was main an oil spill clean-up within the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, partnering with native and federal companies and corporations after a Main Pass Oil Gathering Co (MPOG) underwater pipeline started leaking.
The crude oil pipeline is round 19 miles (30 km) offshore within the Gulf of Mexico, east of Venice, Louisiana, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mentioned.
Third Coast Infrastructure Llc, which owns MPOG, declined to remark and referred inquiries to the Coast Guard.
The EPA added that the Coast Guard had activated the National Response Team, comprising of 15 federal entities liable for coordinating the response to grease air pollution incidents.
The Coast Guard was coordinating the response with MPOG and the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, together with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and different companies.
An organization aircrew had noticed the presence of crude oil throughout an overflight on Thursday close to MPOG’s pipeline system near Plaquemines Parish, southeast of New Orleans, the Coast Guard added.
(Reuters – Reporting by Deep Vakil and Sherin Elizabeth Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by Josie Kao)
