Officials struggle to find source of Gulf of Mexico oil spill

Washington DC (UPI) Nov 22, 2021

An estimated 1.1 million gallons of crude oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico since Nov. 16, with emergency officials scrambling for nearly a week to locate the source of the leak and determine whether an underwater pipeline had ruptured off the Louisiana coast. The spill was discovered on Thursday near a 67-mile pipeline system owned by Third Coast Infrastructure in Houston and op