UPDATE 2-Exxon fixing crude line after oil sheen in Louisiana

* 12-inch pipeline seen resuming activity on Friday-Exxon
* Company says cleanup underway of "very small" sheen

Oct 19 (Reuters) - ExxonMobil Pipeline Company said on
F riday it had shut down a 12-inch pipeline carrying crude after
finding an oil sheen in the water near Barataria Bay, Louisiana.
Exxon said it planned to resume its operations later
o n F riday after repairs. The pipeline carries Heavy Louisiana
Sweet crude from Empire in the state's southernmost Plaquemines
Parish to Raceland in Lafourche Parish.
Exxon is working with regulators at the site of a "very
light sheen, which was limited to the immediate area," company
spokeswoman Amber Gardner said in an e-mail.
Gardner did not provide details on what caused the oil sheen
or when it was discovered. She declined to give the capacity of
the pipeline.
The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration said it was probing the incident but has not
issued any orders restricting the pipeline's restart.
Louisiana's Department of Environmental Quality declined to
comment.
A spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard's Division Eight, which
covers Louisiana, said it did not have information about the
sheen, and added that the Coast Guard would look into it.
In April, Exxon reported a leak and an 1,800 barrel oil
spill from the North Line of the HLS pipeline system. It
received a corrective action order from regulator PHMSA.
Traders in cash crude and oil products markets said there
was no immediate indication that a shutdown of the small
pipeline had affected prices of physical crude or products in
the region on Friday.