Katrina causes oil spill from Chevron Louisiana terminal: USCG

New York (Platts)--12Sep2005

About 23,000 bbl of oil leaked from a storage tank at Chevron Pipe Line
Co's Empire, Louisiana, terminal after Hurricane Katrina struck the area Aug
29, the US Coast Guard reported Monday. 
     A "significant amount" of oil was lost due to "natural dispersion and
evaporation," while the remaining oil spilled has been contained with boom and
ongoing oil recovery operations are underway, the Coast Guard said in a
statement. 
     Chevron's incident action plan to clean up the spill has been submitted 
and approved by the Coast Guard, the agency said. 
     A crude spill was reported Sep 2 by the Louisiana Department of
Environmental Quality, in the immediate aftermath of Katrina's Aug 29
landfall, but it was not clear whether the spill was from Chevron's Empire
terminal, located southeast of New Orleans on the Mississippi River.

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