The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the U.S. Coast Guard are responding to a release of gas and condensate from a pipeline at West Cameron 165 in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 32 miles southwest of Cameron, Louisiana.
A helicopter pilot flying over the site reported the incident to the U.S. Coast Guard at approximately 2 p.m. Jan. 18. The pipeline is operated by Kinetica Partners, LLC.
A previous press release misidentified Fieldwood Energy LLC as the operator. BSEE has since released a corrected press release.
Fieldwood issued a statement clarifying that the pipeline was not one that it operated.
“At the request of the United States Coast Guard, Fieldwood Energy reported to BSEE a sheen that was spotted by a helicopter pilot flying in the Gulf yesterday. As BSEE’s updated news release states, this release is from a pipeline that ‘is operated by Kinetica Partners, LLC.’ Fieldwood has conducted an internal investigation which confirmed that the leak does not involve our platform, pipeline, or any other Fieldwood owned or operated infrastructure,” the statement said.
There were no platform personnel affected by the leak and at the time of the report, the sheen was about one mile across and 10 miles long. The operator estimated the spill volume to be roughly 752 gal, or 17.9 barrels, at that time.
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