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Multiple pipelines and facilities located in a remote area at south pass 24/Dixon bay 2. threat: oil

Hurricane Katrina Vintage Oil ; la · La · Potential Spill · NOAAORR-6012

issued
2005-09-05 00:00Z
status
cancelled 2005-09-19 00:00Z
self-cancels
2005-09-19 00:00Z
authority
NOAA OR&R
sea
Gulf of Mexico
position
29.122, -89.321
source
incidentnews · first seen 2026-09-03 15:09Z

Original warning text

Hurricane Katrina Vintage Oil ; LA.
LA.
1. Potential spill. Multiple pipelines and facilities located in a remote area at South Pass 24/Dixon Bay
2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: CRUDE OIL. TAGS: HURRICANE.
3. POSITION 29.122N 089.321W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6012: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6012

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Timeline · 13 messages since 2005-08-15 · closed 2005-09-20

  1. At 0715 on monday, august 15, well head in the pass a loutre wildlife management area blew out, spewing…2005-08-15 → 2005-08-29
  2. This is a general incident for information covering non-site specific pollution events in louisiana2005-08-30 → 2005-09-13
  3. Multiple pipelines and facilities located in a remote area 4.5 miles s of heads pass2005-09-05 → 2005-09-19
  4. Murphy oil (greater new orleans, st2005-09-05 → 2005-09-19
  5. Report of a sheen (area unknown) coming from a displaced tank2005-09-05 → 2005-09-19
  6. Discharge of sweet crude oil near the main channel leading into the gulf2005-09-05 → 2005-09-19
  7. Discharge of sweet crude oil from an above-ground tank into the mississippi river at mile marker 3, caused…2005-09-05 → 2005-09-19
  8. Sundown east: ruptured tanks and piping2005-09-05 → 2005-09-19
  9. Multiple pipelines and facilities located in a remote area at south pass 24/Dixon bay 2. threat: oil this message2005-09-05 → 2005-09-19
  10. A 20 inch diameter pipeline near port sulfur (MM35), supported by a berm that lost 150 feet in the…2005-09-05 → 2005-09-19
  11. Crude oil spill into the mississippi river from two damaged storage tanks at bass enterprises2005-09-06 → 2005-09-20
  12. Broken wellhead, located in the wagon wheel near venice in plaquemines parish la2005-09-06 → 2005-09-20
  13. Sweet crude release from two damaged tanks at the chevron empire terminal, across the river from buras, in…2005-09-06 → 2005-09-20

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