![]() ![]() Total damage to the vessels exceeded $5.5 million, while the gas pipeline owned by Genesis Energy required $1.7 million in repairs. It caused a massive fire that destroyed the 130-foot dredge as well as its 400-hp tender, Bayou Chevron. The incident occurred April 17, 2018, at 2014 about 1.5 miles offshore from Port O’Connor, Texas. “Shortly thereafter,” the report continued, “fire erupted near the stern of the dredge port side. “As the crew prepared to move the dredge and as the leverman was raising the port spud, a geyser of gas and water - 35 to 40 feet high by crew accounts - erupted from the stern of the vessel,” the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in its investigation report. The vessel’s port spud had inadvertently punctured the buried gas line. ![]() The dredge Jonathon King Boyd was positioned over a natural gas pipeline in Matagorda Bay, Texas, when its crew noticed bubbles coming from the water. ![]()
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