Thursday, July 28, 2016

840 gallons of oil leak from Texas Petroleum Management pipe at Southwest Pass near Mississippi River's mouth




The U.S. Coast Guard responds to an oil leak Thursday, July 28, near Southwest Pass. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard)

 By Littice Bacon-Blood, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
 
on July 28, 2016 at 4:23 PM, updated July 28, 2016 at 5:41 PM




An estimated 840 gallons of oil leaked from a flow line into the marsh at Southwest Pass, the Coast Guard said Thursday (July 28). The pipeline, owned by Texas Petroleum Management, has been secured and a containment boom put in place, the agency said.

Southwest Pass is a ship channel that juts off in a southwesterly direction from the main channel of the Mississippi River where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The cause of the discharge was under investigation.