An 82-year-old oil well that broke loose last month and spewed oily water into the fragile coastal marsh of Plaquemines Parish will be permanently shut and sealed off, the owner-operator said ...

The National Transportation Safety Board says roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for ...

A brownish mix of oil, gas and water sprays from a 82-year-old well near Garden Island Bay in the Bird's Foot Delta in southern Plaquemines Parish on Thursday, May 1, 2025.

After a week of uncontrolled spillage, a leak pouring more than 70,000 gallons of oil into a Louisiana marsh has been contained, according to the Coast Guard.However, cleanup of the area ...

After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported ...

An 82-year-old oil well that broke loose last month and spewed oily water into the fragile coastal marsh of Plaquemines Parish will be permanently shut and sealed off, the owner-operator said ...

A brownish mix of oil, gas and water sprays from a 82-year-old well near Garden Island Bay in the Bird's Foot Delta in southern Plaquemines Parish on Thursday, May 1, 2025.

The well, operated by Spectrum Opco, was first noted as spilling an oil and gas mixture into the environment in Plaquemines Parish, southeast of New Orleans, on April 26. The World War II-era well ...