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发帖数: 335 | 1 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A retired well about 75 miles off the
Louisiana coast is leaking natural gas and light oil, according to media
reports Tuesday. The leak prompted the evacuation of five workers from a
three-well production platform owned by privately-held Talos Energy LLC.
Coast Guard officials are monitoring a hydrocarbon sheen on the surface,
which extends about four miles from the well site. The Fuel Fix energy blog
reported a Talos crew was permanently plugging and abandoning the decades-
old well when it noticed the leak. Talos Energy President Timothy Duncan
told Fuel Fix the company plans to return crew to the field and expects to
have the well under control within the next 24 hours. Talos Energy is a
partnership between private equity firms Apollo Global Management LLC APO -0
.29% and Riverstone Holdings. Talos acquired the well from Energy Resource
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发帖数: 335 | 2 Operator expects to plug well within 24 hours
* Leak began while company was attempting permanent plug
(Reuters) - An inactive natural gas well in the shallow Gulf of Mexico
suffered a blowout on Tuesday as operators were trying to permanently plug
the well, causing an oil sheen that briefly rekindled memories of the BP Plc
spill three years ago.
Houston-based Talos Energy LLC said it was in the process of shutting the
inactive Ship Shoal 225 B-2 well when natural gas and condensate began
flowing on Monday.
"In an abundance of caution, we decided to evacuate the platform and
mobilize our spill response team, we notified the U.S. Bureau of Safety and
Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the U.S. Coast Guard, and we shut-in
two other producing wells at the platform," said Talos President and Chief
Executive Timothy Duncan.
Talos, which owns the well through its subsidiary Energy Resources
Technology Gulf of Mexico LLC, said the well should be plugged within 24
hours. The leak may have been due to the age of the tubing on the well, the
company said.
While the leak 74 miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, is tiny compared
to the disastrous Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010 that dumped 4.9 million
barrels of crude oil into the Gulf, it was one of the first reported
blowouts in the Gulf since then.
"(The Ship Shoal 225 B-2 well) last produced mostly water in 1998 at a rate
of 65,000 cubic feet of gas, 9 barrels of condensate and 1,150 barrels of
water per day at a low flowing pressure of 175 pounds per square inch,"
Talos said. The well could not produce without artificial lift.
All five people working on the platform were evacuated.
A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said it did not have an immediate comment on
Talos' plans to plug the leak.
"We are working closely with BSEE in overseeing that things are done
properly," said Coast Guard spokesman Jonathan Lally.
Energy Resources has assets in the Gulf that average just 16,155 barrels of
oil equivalent per day, with over two-thirds of that crude oil, Talos said
in February. |
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