Oil company says pipeline shut down after California leak

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By AMY TAXIN and CHRISTOPHER WEBER

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Crude was no longer leaking from a Southern California pipeline believed to be the source of a massive oil spill that closed miles of popular beaches on Sunday, according to the head of the company that owns the facility.

Divers were still trying to determine where and why the leak occurred, but the flow of oil was stopped late Saturday from the line that runs under the ocean off Huntington Beach, said Amplify Energy CEO Martyn Willsher.

At least 126,000 gallons (572,807 liters) of crude spilled into the waters off Orange County starting late Friday or early Saturday when boaters began reporting a sheen in the water, officials said.

“I don’t expect it to be more. That’s the capacity of the entire pipeline,” Willsher said at a Sunday news conference. He said the pipeline was suctioned out and dozens of nearby oil platforms operated by Amplify were shut down.



Cleanup contractors unload collected oil in plastic bags trying to stop further oil crude incursion into the Wetlands Talbert Marsh in Huntington Beach, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. One of the largest oil spills in recent Southern California history fouled popular beaches and killed wildlife while crews scrambled Sunday to contain the crude before it spread further into protected wetlands. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)


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[bluestarone]

1. OK we just got their number. (126,000 gallons)

Be ready to (TRIPLE it or even QUADRUPLE it)

[MetalMama]

2. How horrible

Huntington Beach is my home town. The beach is terrific and, in my mind, much better than east coast beaches.

[stillcool]

3. geeze, that's awful

California can't catch a break.

[MFM008]

4. close the barn door

after the horses get out.
They would be shut down forever.

[SunSeeker]

5. Oil platforms should be banned from the coast.

It took them a day and a half to shut down the damn pipe. They have proven to be completely incapable of detecting and quickly stopping a pipe leak. Detecting and cutting off a leak is not difficult technology. The reason they are incapable is that they just don't give a shit about putting in the proper safeguards, because of pure greed. Amplify, the entity that apparently owns Platform Elly, will go bankrupt, and the oil companies like Chevron and BP will just walk away, protected by the corporate shell game of entities.

[stuffmatters]

6. This

[Evolve Dammit]

7. After the Deep Water Horizon I read there are 24,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf, un-monitored.

We have let the oil and gas industry get away with so much. A day and a half in this case is just maddening.