On November 15, 2012 an explosion occurred on a West Delta platform about 25 miles southeast of Grand Isle, La. This is what the Oil Detection Radar picked up from the H.I. RICH.
The White area to the upper right side of the screen is the oil platform. The dark area in the center of the screen is sheen that we saw on the oil detection radar. Counting the rings we can accurately determine the sheen was 4nm long and less than 1nm wide moving from a North to South direction. We are able to see with this radar image that there is nothing coming from the platform itself. This could have been oil leaking from debris from the incident. No recoverable product was seen at any time in this area. This sheen was so very light that not even sorbents could have been effective.