NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Coast Guard officials said they were investigating an oily sheen spotted in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune said samples of the oil have been collected and sent to a Connecticut lab to see whether it came from the well owned by British Petroleum that exploded in 2010, pouring tens of thousands of gallons of crude into the gulf for weeks.
The oil was first spotted by satellite and confirmed by a BP-sponsored fly-over.
"Although the source of these sheens may be the wrecked [the BP] well, this relationship has not been established at this time," officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a statement.
The sheen is 40 miles south of the Mississippi River, the newspaper reported.
