Swift Wellhead Brought Under Control after Collision

Swift Energy has brought under control a well damaged by a marine vessel collision earlier this week, the company reported Friday.

The Houston-based company stopped the flow of water, oil and gas from a wellhead Thursday afternoon that was shut in at the Lake Washington field, located offshore Plaquemines Parish, La. A vessel collided with the well late Tuesday.

Swift said it was appreciative of the assistance it received from the U.S. Coast Guard, Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinators Office, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources and Plaquemines Parish to resolve the incident "in a safe, timely and efficient manner."

No injuries resulted from the incident, Swift said in a statement Tuesday. Primary containment boom and oil skimming equipment was deployed around the well site to protect the shorelines, facilities and private property.

Swift had shut in the well in January 2008; the well has not produced since that time. A last production test done before the well was shut in recorded production levels of 18 barrels of oil per day, three barrels of water per day and 59 thousand cubic feet per day of natural gas.

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Woman killed, several injured in collision that shuts down highway

Font ResizeCops and CourtsLongmont Times-Calldenverpost.comPosted: 12/16/2012 06:58:30 PM MSTDecember 17, 2012 1:59 AM GMTUpdated: 12/16/2012 06:58:39 PM MST

LONGMONT — One person died and several others were injured in a Saturday night traffic accident that shut down Colorado Highway 66 on both sides of Pace Street, authorities said.

Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Mike Baker said the woman who suffered fatal injuries was a passenger in a 2006 Toyota SUV that was westbound on Colorado 66 when it collided with an eastbound 2007 Hummer SUV.

The driver of the Toyota and at least five occupants of the Hummer were all transported to Longmont United Hospital for treatment of their injuries, according to Baker and Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur.

Identities of the accident victims were not immediately available.

Baker said officers were dispatched to the scene about 5:30 p.m. and that the State Patrol was still investigating the circumstances of the crash — which he said appeared to have been a head-on collision — several hours later.

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