Thick, brown oil continued to make its way along the Louisiana shore, touching southeast Louisiana parishes Wednesday, according to satellite and high altitude images.

Marsh Island, an uninhabited marshy island off the coast of southeast Louisiana and the tip of the Mississippi delta, suffered the most harm from the oil.

Gov. Bobby Jindal confirmed during a news conference Tuesday afternoon that the oil-laden water had reached parishes of Jefferson, St. Bernard, Terrebonne and Lafourche.

According to the Louisiana Office of Tourism, all nine coastal parishes and areas were unaffected by the oil spill and remain open for commercial and recreational fishing.

The primary affected areas are east of the Mississippi River. More than 80 percent of Louisiana’s coastal waters and charter’s fishing providers are in unaffected areas.

Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion on April 20, at least 210,000 gallons of oil has been dispersed into the Gulf of Mexico. Several attempts by the owner of the oil drilling rig, BP, have been unsuccessful. BP was ordered to release more footage of the remaining oil gushing from the well on the sea floor.

The footage showed the well releasing a plume of brown, rust-colored oily liquid.

BP said it is attempting a so-called top kill operation, in which heavy drilling fluids are injected into the well to stem the flow of oil and gas, followed by using cement to seal the well.

BP said that most of the equipment to carry out the process is on the site.

The company announced it would donate grants to promote tourism in each of the states, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, that are being affected by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

For Louisiana, the company said it would grant $15 million to help mitigate the results of the disaster.

BP also gave $1 million to the Associated Catholic Charities and the Second Harvest Food Bank, both in New Orleans, to provide emergency food assistance and other social services.

This map shows the 17 main sensitive shoreline monitoring areas that are under inspection of oil contamination and are being protected by the U.S. Coast Guard's Deepwater Horizon Unified Command. (Map by Brandon Coley, Source: U.S. Coast Guard)

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