Reuters: U.S.: Coast Guard checking report of wellhead leak off Louisiana

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Coast Guard checking report of wellhead leak off Louisiana Feb 27th 2013, 18:03 Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:14pm EST (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard was responding to a report that a crewboat struck an inactive wellhead off the Louisiana coast, and that the platform was discharging an unknown quantity of an oily-water mixture, the agency said on Wednesday. It said reports indicated a 42-foot (13-metre) crewboat, the Sea Raider, had struck a wellhead owned by Swift Energy on Tuesday evening, and that the energy company had said the wellhead was shut down in 2007. "The Coast Guard is working with federal, state and local agencies as well as the responsible party, Swift Energy, in response to this incident to secure the well and contain and clean up any oil that is leaking," the statement said., The cause of the incident about nine miles southwest of Port Sulphur was under investigation, the Coast Guard said.

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