Satellite Reports Detect Mystery Sheen in High Island Area 536, offshore Texas

Offshore Texas | 2023-Jul-12

Initial Notification: On July 12, 2023, NOAA's SSC in Texas received three Marine Pollution Surveillance Reports (MPSRs) generated by NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. All were referred to the National Response Center. All three reports were high confidence that oil was observed and all were near an offshore oil production platform A third-party overflight report from the same time period reported a 2 mile x 20 ft rainbow sheen of unknown origin in the same area.