seattlepi.com | Company in Settlement Talks Over Money for 13-Year Oil Leak U.S. News & World Report The leak began off Louisiana's coast after a Taylor Energy-owned oil platform toppled during Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Waves whipped up by Ivan triggered an underwater mudslide that buried a cluster of oil wells under treacherous mounds of sediment, ... Company in settlement talks over 13-year oil leak off La. |