Norway Shifts Focus to Floating Offshore Wind
Norway will not offer acreage suitable for bottom-fixed offshore wind farm development when it next announces new tenders, and will instead focus on floating wind options, it said on Monday.
The Coast Guard in New Orleans was notified at 1:43 p.m CDT on Monday that Louisiana sweet crude oil was discharged from Gulf Production Company, Inc.’s Raphael Pass production facility in Louisiana, the agency said in a press release. “The discharge was reportedly due to the failure of a three-phase high-pressure separator coming from [Exxon Mobil Corp.’s (XOM)] well to the facility,” the agency said.
The Coast Guard said Gulf Production Company is the responsible party, which has contracted ES&H as the oil spill response organization. The well has been manually shut in, the agency added.
An overflight conducted Tuesday by the Coast Guard and ES&H showed that most of the discharge was contained inside the north end of Bull Bay in front of the facility, the agency said.
The Coast Guard said it’s investigating the cause of the incident and that it continues to oversee the clean-up operations.
No injuries were reported.
-By Isabel Ordonez, Dow Jones Newswires
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