The 17.5-mile pipeline has been suctioned at both ends to stop the flow of oil into the water, and divers are working in the area to determine what went wrong. Workers for Amplify Energy, which owns the platform, noticed a sheen in the water while doing a line inspection Saturday morning and notified the Coast Guard, Amplify CEO Martyn Willsher said during a press conference Sunday afternoon.

Elly processes oil production from Ellen and Eureka, and Elly is connected by a platform to Ellen. But Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley said despite efforts to patch the damaged pipeline on Saturday, oil continued to spill from it through the night and divers were still working to repair it early Sunday.Įlly is one of three platforms run by the Beta Operating Company, which also operates platforms Ellen and Eureka nearby.

Officials said Sunday afternoon that it appears the pipeline has stopped leaking. Oil from the spill also infiltrated Talbert Marsh, a 25-acre ecological reserve in Huntington Beach that is home to dozens of species of birds. The failure caused at least 126,000 gallons of crude to spill into coastal waters creating a slick that spanned about 8,320 acres- larger than the size of Santa Monica-and sent oil to the shores of Newport Beach and Huntington Beach early Sunday. The spill, first reported Saturday, originated from a pipeline off the coast of Huntington Beach connected to an offshore oil platform known as Elly.

Crews raced Sunday to contain the damage from a major oil spill off the Orange County coast that left crude spoiling beaches, killing fish and birds and threatening local wetlands.

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