Showing posts with label Gulf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gulf. Show all posts

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Potential New Deep Water Oil Spill In The Gulf Of Mexico-100 mile Sheen Reported

The U.S. Coast Guard is currently investigating reports of a potentially massive oil sheen about 20 miles away from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion last April.

According to Paul Barnard, operations controller for the USCG in Louisiana, a helicopter crew has been dispatched to the site of the Matterhorn SeaStar oil rig, owned by W&T Offshore, Inc.
Multiple reports have come in of a sheen nearly 100 miles long and 12 miles wide originating near the site.