Everyone remembers the ruinous oil fall like BP ’s in 2010 . Few remember the slow motion spills , like Taylor Energy ’s , which has been drip dribble dripping for all of the past 10 years — a leak shroud in secretiveness and seemingly impossible to prepare .
Aninvestigation by the Associated Pressthis week shake off some light on the Taylor Energy crude oil spillway , which is even worse than antecedently thought . In 2004 , Hurricane Ivan send a mudslide that knocked over Taylor Energy ’s platform . The wells underneath have been leaking ever since , at an estimated pace of over 33,000 gallons a year , six time that of an earlier estimate . A seeable oil slick circularize out from the area .
How can it be 10 years and the leak is still going ? On one hand , this passing water is especially tricky to fix . The mudslide dump deposit all over the H. G. Wells , make the business harder than your distinctive “ plug and abandon . ” But Taylor Energy has also been especially secretive in their filing , refusing to disclose many details because of trade closed book .
What ’s even odder about the whole fib is that Taylor Energy is now only a ghost of a company now . The company sold off all of its offshore assets in 2008 , and it has just one full - time employee now . It only still exists to sell with the crude oil spill — how ’s that for a bequest ?
[ Associated Press ]
Top image : The sheen from the Taylor Energy spill . AP Photo / Gerald Herber
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