Crude Oil Platform News

The Coast Guard and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement are responding to a loss of well control event at Ship Shoal Block 225 Platform B, a natural gas and crude oil platform located approximately 74 miles southwest of Port Fourchon, Tuesday. The Coast Guard and BSEE received a report from Energy Resources Technology Gulf of Mexico LLC that an oil and natural gas production platform, owned by ERT, lost well control. Work to temporarily plug Well #B2 was ongoing when workers became aware of the well control event. Two other wells on Platform B were producing at the time and were subsequently shut-in. All platform personnel were safely evacuated. BSEE inspectors and Coast Guard pollution responders conducted overflights earlier today.