Wellhead struck by dredging barge
News - July 29, 2010
The US Coast Guard dispatched emergency teams earlier this week after a dredge barge crashed into an oil well off the coast of New Orleans, reportedly sending crude spewing some 20 feet into the air.
The wellhead, located about 65 miles south of New Orleans, was ruptured when it was struck by a dredge barge being pulled by a tug.
The Coast Guard said it couldn't immediately confirm reports that a giant fountain of oil was now spewing from the damaged wellhead, which was situated only six feet below the surface of the sea.
A strike Coast Guard team from Mobile, Alabama, had been dispatched by boat to the scene as well as a helicopter from New Orleans with a marine pollution investigator on board.
"There have been reports of oil from the collision and we are investigating those reports to mitigate any environmental concerns," petty officer William Colclough, a Coast Guard spokesman, told AFP.
"The oil spill liability trust fund has been enacted to provide monetary support for any clean-up operation."
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