US EditionFederal authorities are cleaning up an oil spill in southeast Louisiana
- Federal and state officials contained and began cleaning a crude oil and natural gas leak near Garden Island Bay, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, on May 1, 2025.
- The leak, reported April 26, originated from an 82-year-old inactive well owned by Spectrum OpCo and spewed material into coastal marshes for over a week while the cause remained under investigation.
- Responders deployed over 20,300 feet of containment boom plus absorbent bales, recovered about 79,000 gallons of oily water, and coordinated wildlife and shoreline impact assessments with NOAA support.
- U.S. Coast Guard Captain Greg Callaghan called regaining control a “vital milestone” but emphasized cleanup and safety efforts would continue as the Unified Command remained on site.
- The incident highlights challenges in managing aging oil infrastructure amid local lawsuits and federal workforce reductions, with officials committed to protecting communities and coastal ecosystems.
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Federal authorities start to clean up oil spill in southeast Louisiana
Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week. Upwards of 79,000 gallons of “oily water mixture” have been…
Federal authorities are cleaning up an oil spill in southeast Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week.
82-year-old well spewing oil in Louisiana marsh never plugged in hope of future production
First reported by the operator as a "blowout" on the afternoon of April 26 in Plaquemines Parish, the oil spill that the U.S. Coast Guard for days called an "uncontrolled discharge" is coming from an oil well that was drilled 82 years ago and put in inactive status nearly a decade ago by a previous owner.
Unified Command gains control of discharge from leaking Louisiana Well 59
After what CBS describes as “more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana,” a Unified Command, consisting of the Coast Guard and the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office (LOSCO), has successfully secured the discharge of oil and natural gas from Well 59 near Garden Island Bay, Louisiana. At approximately noon yesterday, the well intervention team successfully cut the flange on the discharging w…
Decades Old Oil Well Leaks Into Parish Marsh
On Saturday, April 26, an air crew from the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator's Office spotted an oil leak occurring by the marshes near Garden Island Bay, about 20 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana in Plaquemines Parish. According to Plaquemines Parish Government (PPG) Director of Homeland Security/ Emergency Preparedness Patrick Harvey, clean up operations were being overseen by the U.S. Coast Guard and remained ongoing.
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