In the Gulf of Mexico, drilling has resumed near the site of the BP-operated offshore oil rig that exploded five years ago in the worst industrial environmental disaster in U.S. history. Harper’s Magazine revealed a Louisiana-based oil company (LLOG Exploration Offshore LLC) purchased the area from BP and is now drilling into the Macondo reservoir. […]
Search still on for missing oil workers
Less than a week after fire damaged a Gulf of Mexico drilling platform, the search is still on for three missing workers. Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, officials claim the response of emergency crews contained the blaze to one part of the platform complex, preventing oil from spilling into the ocean. At least four people were […]
Fracking-not just done on land
While a debate rages over the use of hydraulic fracturing to exploit fossil fuel reserves inland, the practice has quietly taken hold offshore, in the Gulf of Mexico. Documents obtained by “Fault Lines” reveal that the world’s largest oil firms are now fracking in some of the Gulf’s deepest waters — raising questions about how […]
How the major players all (mis?)handled the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Howard Ramos chats with Rob about his research into how BP,environmentalists, the media and government handled the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Predicting an oil spills ocean travels
Considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in history, April 2010’s BP’s Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico challenged scientists to think about the way in which oil and other pollutants move in the ocean. Scientists in the University of Delaware’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE), in partnership with other researchers, […]
Louisiana is sinking, oil refineries threatened
Southeastern Louisiana is sinking – fast. In only 80 years 5,200 square kilometres of coast have become open ocean. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists say by 2100 “the Gulf of Mexico could rise as much as 4.3 feet across this landscape,” meaning that all of the infrastructure located outside of the protective […]
Opposites attract to perhaps extract oil
Anccelerator Physicist appears to have had an “aha moment” as a result of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico four years ago. Arden Warner who works for Fermilab shaved iron bits from a shovel and sprinkled them on some engine oil. Warner then used a simple fridge magnet to pull the clump of […]
Damage worse than thought
Some regions in the Gulf of Mexico affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are still feeling it’s affects. It was four years ago when BP’s well ignited and pumped oil into the Gulf of Mexico for three months. Six months after the spill, a survey showed severe damage was done to coral up to […]
BP claims it paid out too much for the Gulf oil spill damages
BP is asking a US court to help retrieve hundreds of millions of dollars the oil giant claims to have overpaid for damages caused as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill four years ago. A month ago BP was successful in obtaining a court order which revised the way losses due to […]