On January 21, 2007, the NOAA SSC was notified of a suspected well head or pipeline blowout in Lake Perot, LA. The source is unconfirmed and may be an abandoned wellhead or pipeline. There is a significant plume of oil condensate jetting into the air and a trailing plume of brown condensate on the water

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