---
title: "Shell Oil Spill Dumps 90,000 Gallons of Crude Into Gulf Of Mexico"
description: "Another hit to the region. "
date: "2016-05-14"
modified: "2016-05-14"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/3473/shell-oil-spill-dumps-90-000-gallons-of-crude-into-gulf-of-mexico"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Environment"
  - "Louisiana"
  - "oil spill"
  - "Shell"
---

# Shell Oil Spill Dumps 90,000 Gallons of Crude Into Gulf Of Mexico

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The Gulf of Mexico is still recovering is still recovering from Deepwater Horizon, the infamous BP oil spill, which desecrated the region six years ago. No luck. There’s [oil in the water again](<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/shell-shuts-wells-near-oil-spill-off-louisiana/>), and this time it’s a problem with Shell’s offshore Brutus platform, near which a crude leak has been discovered. Word came in after a helicopter spotted an oil sheen off the Louisiana coast, about 160 miles south-southwest of New Orleans. As of Saturday morning, nearly 90,000 gallons have escaped into the sea.

There are no offshore drilling activities at Brutus, so chances are the leak is a result of problems with Shell’s Glider Field. That’s the underwater piping configuration, a manifold-like system responsible for connecting the Brutus platform to a cluster of four subsea oil wells. Federal regulators say that Shell has now shut off all wells running to the platform in order to stop the leak, but not before a 13-mile-long oil slick formed on the water. It’s less than 100 miles south of from Port Fourchon, Louisiana.

At this time, no injuries are reported. Cleanup crews have been dispatched.

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