Coast Guard, Texas General Land Office oversee response to leaking oil platform

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Federal, state and local agencies and responders are working Wednesday to mitigate possible impact from an oil platform that has a small leak of water coming from a large tank that also contains crude oil and is located about 5 miles off Matagorda Island, Texas. Tuesday, the Sabco Operating Company notified the Coast Guard of the leak on the bottom of a holding tank on...

Coast Guard medevacs oil platform crewman

USCC File PhotoNEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a crewmember from an oil platform 30 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, at about 12 a.m. Rescued was Brandon Chatagnier, 35. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a call from Island Operating Company at 9:15 p.m., Monday, that a crewman aboard the Eugene Island Platform 129, had reportedly experienced symptoms...

Salvage operation begins for sunken vessel at Granite Point oil platform

NIKISKI, Alaska – Salvage operations are underway in Cook Inlet near the Granite Point oil platform 16 miles from Nikiski for the offshore supply vessel Monarch which sunk Thursday.

Joint response to sunken oil supply vessel at Granite Point oil platform

NIKISKI, Alaska – A unified command has been established in Nikiski to respond to the sinking of the 166-foot motor vessel Monarch adjacent to the Granite Point oil platform 16 miles from Nikiski, Alaska.