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Coast Guard responding to report of oil spill off Louisiana's coast

The Coast Guard says it is responding to a report of a collision between a boat and an inactive oil wellhead, which is now discharging an oily-water mixture.Coast Guard Sector New Orleans watchstanders received a report that the 42-foot crewboat Sea Raider hit a wellhead -- located nine miles southwest of Port Sulphur -- on Tuesday evening, according to a statement posted on the USCG's digital newsroom .Well owner Swift Energy Co. of Houston said the well was intermittently burping oily water on Wednesday, probably from a damaged valve.Company President Bruce Vincent said the wellhead about a mile offshore is ringed with containment boom, which also was set along the shore, and two skimmer boats were at work. Crews began ringing the wellhead Tuesday night, he said.Vincent said only a small amount of oil appears to have escaped the well. The well was shut in about five years ago as a weak producer and the company planned to plug it this year, he said. Enough natural gas pressure had bui...

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  1. Diesel fuel spill reaches Lake Huron shore after barge sinks

    Diesel fuel from a barge that sank in stormy Lake Huron has reached the Michigan shoreline, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday evening.A 110-foot dredging barge sank...

  2. Crews put boom around freighter grounded off Puerto Rico island, no signs of pollution

    U.S. crews have laid a containment boom around a ship that grounded just a few feet off an outlying Puerto Rican island.The U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday that more th...

  3. Italy: Officials mulling removal of fuel from ship

    Italian officials were clearing hurdles Monday to begin pumping some half a million gallons of fuel from the capsized Costa Concordia that threaten an environmental ...

  4. Italian officials: 2 more bodies recovered from cruise wreckage

    Italian officials discovered a sixteenth body while searching the wrecked Costa Concordia while operations are under way to remove a half-million gallons of fuel fro...

  5. Russian tanker arrives at iced-in Alaska town to transfer fuel to residents

    Crews worked to build a path Sunday over a half-mile of Bering Sea ice for the final leg of a Russian tanker's mission to deliver fuel to a town isolated amid one of...

  6. Exxon ramps up Montana oil spill cleanup, but where it all went still unclear as river rises

    The scope of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s oil leak into the Yellowstone River could extend far beyond a 10-mile stretch of the famed waterway, the company acknowledged under ...

  7. Russian tanker begins transferring fuel to iced-in Alaska town

    A Russian tanker and its crew have begun offloading more than a million gallons of fuel to an iced-in city along the western coast of Alaska.Two parallel hoses, 700 ...

  8. Coast Guard: 'Very small part' of oil spill from sunken boat reaches Seattle beach

    The Coast Guard said Friday evening that a "very small part" of a diesel fuel and oil spill from a 73-foot workboat that sank earlier in the day has reached a Seattl...

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    As the market continues its wild swings, we take a look at the brewing competition in the smartphone world.

  10. Booms Set Up Along Gulf Coast to Absorb Oil

    FBN's Jeff Flock on BP's efforts to stop the oil leak as preparations continue to protect the coastline from the oil.

  11. Shoddy Disposal Work Mars Oil Cleanup

    ORANGE BEACH, Ala. -- A leaky truck filled with oil-stained sand and absorbent boom soaked in crude pulls away from the beach, leaving tar balls in a public parking ...

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  2. Oil Spill Nears Florida Coast

    Incident Command Spokesman Brian Sibley on efforts to track and clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

  3. Alabama Gov. on Protecting Gulf Coast From The Oil Spill

    Gov. Bob Riley, (R-AL), on the need to protect the beaches and marshland until the oil leak can be stopped.

  4. Birds Struggle to Survive a 'Brown Summer' In BP Spill's Wake

    So far, this has been the summer of brown. As in rusty brown oil and the devastated brown pelicans it has cast helpless upon the beach. But it's Louisiana's rich pal...

  5. Cleanup Solution for Gulf?

    Natural, biodegradable solution to sop up Gulf oil?

  6. 100 Days of Oil: The Numbers So Far

    In the 100 days since an April 20 explosion about the Deepwater Horizon drill rig unleashed a seemingly unstoppable torrent of oil into the Gulf of Mexico , the eyes...

  7. The following is prepared testimony of BP PLC Chief Executive Tony Hayward before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on oversight and investigations.

    June 17, 2010"Chairman Stupak, Ranking Member Burgess, members of the Subcommittee. I am Tony Hayward, Chief Executive of BP plc.The explosion and fire aboard the De...

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