Shell responding to Gulf sheen

Sheen reported: Said to be near Mars platform

Shell

News Wires

 11 April 2012 23:23 GMT

An oil sheen spotted near Shell platforms in the central Gulf of Mexico has caused the company to send a spill response vessel and seek aircraft overflights, a Shell spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

The source of the one-mile by 10-mile sheen between Shell's Mars and Ursa projects is unknown and not linked to the facilities, but Shell is responding "proactively," Reuters quoted a statement from the Anglo-Dutch supermajor as saying.

An on-call, after-hours spokesman for the Coast Guard told Reuters he had no information about the incident.

Shell said it reported the sheen to the National Response Center, which is run by the Coast Guard and keeps up with marine oil spills, pipeline leaks and other incidents of pollution. The sheen report did not immediately appear…

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