British Petroleum’s plan to drill in the Gulf of Mexico
again was approved by the Obama administration. It was their first oil
drilling plan approved for the Gulf since the huge oil spill the
company caused in 2010. Their newly approved plan calls for the
drilling of four exploratory wells about two hundred miles from the
Louisiana coast.
It
is shocking a company that caused so much damage to the Gulf’s ecology
and regional economy would possibly be allowed to drill there again so
soon after the destruction. “Comprehensive safety legislation hasn’t
passed Congress, and BP hasn’t paid the fines they owe for their spill,
yet BP is being given back the keys to drill in the gulf, said
Congressman Edward J. Markey, from Massachusetts. (Source: biologicaldiversity.org)
NOAA: BP oil spill may have contributed high mortality
rate of dolphins
By Karen Nelson
Biloxi Sun-Herald
Oct. 28, 2011
GULFPORT
-- NOAA officials called a national media briefing Thursday and said
that the BP oil spill could have played a role in the high number of
dolphin deaths in the northern Gulf since 2010. But they said further
testing is needed to draw any conclusions. Read more
BP's Gulf Oil Spill: 1 Year Later
April 20, 2011
One year after the blowout at the Macondo oil well in
the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent burning and sinking of the Deepwater
Horizon oil rig, what has been learned? Read more
We are to blame,
our dependency on oil
Oil pollution in the Oceans, Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf,
and Red Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Alaska’s waters
and the oil keeps flowing... I mean leaking, gushing, polluting
Trinidad oil company denies spill reached ocean
(AP) – Aug 13, 2010
PORT-OF-SPAIN,
Trinidad — Trinidad's petroleum company said Friday that crews are
cleaning up a spill that seeped into rivers, but denied claims by
fishermen that the oil had reached the ocean.
Petroleum Company
of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. said it fixed a leak in an underground
transfer pipe that released oil into the Godineau River and tributaries
on the Caribbean island this week. (Read more)
BP is guilty of murder
Let's not forget about the 11 souls who lost their
lives
because of BP. Let's not forget about the lives ruined because of BP.
The
Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the
Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the BP oil disaster or the Macondo blowout)
is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the largest marine oil
spill in the history of the petroleum industry. The spill stemmed from
a sea-floor oil gusher that resulted from the April 20, 2010 Deepwater
Horizon drilling rig explosion. The explosion killed 11 platform
workers and injured 17 others. On July 15, the leak was stopped by
capping the gushing wellhead after releasing about 4.9 million
barrels of crude oil. It was estimated that 53,000 barrels per
day were escaping from the well just before it was capped. It
is
believed that the daily flow rate diminished over time, starting at
about 62,000 barrels per day and decreasing as the reservoir
of
hydrocarbons feeding the gusher was gradually depleted
An
oil spill is a release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the
environment due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term
often refers to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean
or coastal waters. Oil spills include releases of crude oil from
tankers, offshore platforms, drilling rigs and wells, as well as spills
of refined petroleum products (such as gasoline, diesel) and their
by-products, and heavier fuels used by large ships such as bunker fuel,
or the spill of any oily refuse or waste oil. Spills may take months or
even years to clean up
Oil
wastes that enter the ocean come from many sources, some being
accidental spills or leaks, and some being the results of chronic and
careless habits in the use of oil and oil products. Most waste oil in
the ocean consists of oily storm water drainage from cities and farms,
untreated waste disposal from factories and industrial facilities, and
unregulated recreational boating.
Read more: Oil Spills: Impact
on the Ocean - sea, effects, temperature, percentage, important,
largest, types, source, marine, oxygen, human
Imagine
yourself as a killer whale. You are swimming around when you decide to
stick your head out of the water to take a breath. As you are taking a
breath, you see a large stream of thick black oil heading your way. You
go back under water only to find other animals dying one by one because
the oil is damaging their bodies.
REPORT - Twenty Years Later, Impacts Of The Exxon
Valdez
Linger
by doug struck
Two decades after the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million
gallons
of crude oil into Alaska’s waters, the Prince William Sound, its
fishermen, and its wildlife have still not fully recovered.
Full Story at Yale e360
PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- Two Diamond Offshore rigs,
the
Ocean Titan and the Ocean America, have been completed and returned to
service, according Signal Offshore. The LeTourneau Class 64 jackup
Ocean Titan entered Signal's East Pascagoula, Mississippi yard for
modifications and repairs on March 6 and departed on April 14. The
eight-column semisubmersible Ocean America spent 97 days on Signal's
Dry Dock at Port Arthur, Texas undergoing periodic inspection
procedures and customer-planned modifications. It was delivered on May
7.