High island, texas

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AMOCO Pipeline Break; High Island, Texas.
High Island, Texas.
1. At approximately 2300 on September 5, 1991, a 10-inch pipeline ruptured at the AMOCO Terminal on the Intracoastal Waterway off High Island, Texas. The system was shut down as soon as the pressure change was noticed, probably no more than 15 minutes after the rupture. Approximately half of the pipeline's potential 1,000 barrels of South Texas sweet crude oil entered the Intracoastal Waterway about 1 1/2 nautical miles north-northeast of High Island. The oil flowed west to the slip where the barge that had been loading was moored. A hard boom was placed in the slip and several more were positioned across the Intracoastal Waterway to keep oil from entering East Bay. The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Federal On-Scene Coordinator (FOSC) ordered the Intracoastal Waterway closed to all traffic and authorized placing hard boom across it in several locations. With boom in place, the mechanical cleanup [...]
2. COMMODITY: SOUTH TEXAS SWEET CRUDE OIL. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 21000 GALLONS.
3. POSITION 29.567N 094.396W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6835: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6835