From an old, non-production and oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico Louisiana coast about 75 miles outside of the crew's work to plug the loss of control, the New Orleans (AP) - The Coast Guard said Tuesday gas leak .
Five crew working permanently plugging old wells and salt water and a small amount of light oil, natural gas and water mixture is called condensation began to escape on Monday, according to the Talos energy limited liability company president Timothy · S. Duncan in a statement.
"As a precaution, we decided to evacuate platforms for mobilizing our oil spill response team," the statement from the Houston-based company said. The crew get off safely.
Duncan said Tuesday the crew of Wild Well Control company work, has been well controlled, and is expected to do so on Wednesday.
The well did not blow out and on the platform without any explosion or fire, the Coast Guard Lieutenant lily ZEPEDA said.
She said that a mixture of water and gas leaks, which is 144 feet deep water from the well. Aerial Tuesday revealed a rainbow sheen four miles wide, on the surface of the bay three-quarters of a mile long, she said.
Duncan said, according to the size of shiny, about 6 million barrels of condensate light has been released. All are expected to evaporate, he said.
Zepeda said that 2010 will be no signs of BP's Macondo well blowout about 100 miles east of the scale of leakage. BP blowout led to more than 200 million gallons of oil escaping from the well in the Gulf of one mile deep.
The wells have been developed in the 1970s. It is inserted into the "artificial lift" because what it needs to be, and then there is water in the primary pressure - 1,150 barrels of water, 90,000 barrels of condensate and 65,000 cubic feet of gas per day, Duncan said.
, "The statement said:" We believe that the age of the tubing may contribute to the event.
Two other wells on the production platform was closed.
The company purchased the well owner, Energy Resources Technology GOM Company, Houston, in February.
 



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