Investigators are looking at shipping activity going back a year to help determine what caused the recent Southern California oil spill, officials said Friday.
Investigators are looking at shipping activity going back a year to help determine what caused the recentThe pipeline that transports oil from platforms off Huntington Beach to the Port of Long Beach shows signs of an aged anchor strike and damage that's been present for so long, there's marine growth present, said Capt. Jason Neubauer, chairman of the Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation.
"This event could be multiple incidents and strikes of the pipeline" following an "initial event we’re pretty confident occurred several months to a year ago," Neubauer said.a subsidiary of Amplify Energy Corp., said the leak began Saturday, and a survey it conducted in October 2020 indicated the pipeline was in good shape.
A fracture in the pipeline doesn't appear to be the result of a direct anchor strike, Neubauer said, adding that an anchor or anchors dragging the pipeline could have indirectly caused the breach."It’s definitely possible that the anchor would break away the rigid concrete casing, and the pipe itself would bend," he said."I’m convinced ... the initial event that deflected the pipe itself was an anchor strike," Neubuaer said.
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