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Taylor Energy said it continues work to plug offshore wells in the Gulf of Mexico that began leaking when its production platform was toppled during Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
The company is using the drill rig Diamond Ocean Saratoga, with full approval from Unified Command.
The leaks, originally estimated at nine gallons a day, never made landfall and have been substantially reduced, the company said.
Earlier Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the U.S. secretary of the interior said in an email that less than a third of a barrel of oil was leaking from Taylor-owned wells.
Media reports had surfaced that Diamond Offhore Drilling Inc. (DO) was dealing with a leak at a Taylor-owned oil well in the gulf.
The work had been under way before a government-mandated drilling ban that was instituted as a result of the massive BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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