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Mexico says oil spill avoided after deadly offshore blaze

A huge blaze twisted and blackened an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, but the state-run Pemex oil company said it managed to avert any significant oil spill. At least four workers died and two suffered life-threatening injuries in an explosion that engulfed the platform in flamesWednesday, forcing 300 people to abandon the facility. ...

Apr. 2, 2015

By Associated Press

Oil spill & leak detection

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Mar. 27, 2009

By InterOcean Systems LLC

Offshore Oil Drilling Stopped in Belize

Yesterday, Belize's Supreme Court declared offshore drilling contracts issued by the Government of Belize (in 2004 and 2007) null and void, providing a dramatic and potentially definitive setback to The Government of Belize and the petroleum prospecting companies issued the contracts. The ruling, handed down by Justice Oswell Legall, was in response to a ...

Apr. 17, 2013

By Oceana

Oil spill monitoring in Western Australia

EOMAP GmbH & Co has launched several services to support oil spill monitoring using optical satellites. The services were developed for mapping a major ecological disaster: a recent oil spill near the coast of Western Australia. Oil, gas and condensate started seeping into the Timor Sea on 21st August from a leak 250 kilometres north of Truscott, and 690 kilometres west of ...

Oct. 9, 2009

MOEX offshore agrees to $90 million partial settlement of liability in deepwater horizon oil spill

MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC has agreed to settle its liability in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in a settlement with the United States valued at $90 million, announced the Department of Justice, the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today. Approximately $45 million of the $90 million settlement is going directly to the Gulf in the form of penalties or expedited ...

Feb. 17, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Richard Lazarus named as executive director of national commission on the BP deepwater horizon oil spill and offshore drilling

The co-chairs of the bipartisan National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling have selected a highly regarded Georgetown University law professor to serve as the commission"s executive director. Richard Lazarus, the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at Georgetown, will lead the staff of the commission and work at the direction of co-chairs - ...

Jun. 23, 2010

By US Department of Energy

Bush removes executive ban on offshore oil drilling

President George W. Bush has removed the executive ban on offshore exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf, the OCS, that has stood since his father was in the Oval Office. Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, the president blamed the Democratically-controlled Congress for rising gasoline prices that averaged more than US$4.07 a gallon at the 4th of July holiday weekend. That is 13 cents ...

Jul. 15, 2008

By Environment News Service (ENS)

EPA proposes year`s grace on spill prevention rule--but not for offshore drillers

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to extend the compliance date by one year for certain facilities subject to recent amendments to the Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule. The agency also is announcing that certain facilities will not be eligible for the one-year extension and will have to comply by the current date of Nov. 10, 2010. Last year, EPA amended ...

Aug. 3, 2010

By The Compliance Center (ICC)

Major Investors Urge Oil Spill Commission to Seek SEC-Required Disclosure of Offshore Drilling Risks

WASHINGTON D.C. - December 14, 2010 - The Securities and Exchange Commission should play a critical role in requiring oil companies to boost their public disclosure of material financial risks they face from offshore oil drilling projects. To that end, a group of leading U.S. investors has asked the national commission investigating the Gulf of ...

Dec. 14, 2010

By 3BL Media

Court: Chemical Safety Board can investigate offshore spills

In a case with potentially far-reaching consequences, a federal appeals court has again found that the U.S. Chemical Safety Board has the authority to investigate the causes of offshore oil spills. The board has been looking into the catastrophic blowout of a BP PLC well five years ago in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people and caused the nation's worst offshore oil spill. The ruling - ...

Mar. 13, 2015

By Associated Press

The gulf of Mexico oil spill: an accident waiting to happen

The oil slick spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has shattered the notion that offshore drilling had become safe. A close look at the accident shows that lax federal oversight, complacency by BP and the other companies involved, and the complexities of drilling a mile deep all combined to create the perfect environmental ...

May 13, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Argentina strives to clean mystery oil spill in Patagonia

An enormous oil spill of unknown origin has washed ashore in Argentine Patagonia north of Comodoro Rivadavia, fouling beaches and threatening the area's marine life, according to reports released in Buenos Aires by Chubut Environment Minister Monica Raimundo. Comodoro Rivadavia is at the heart of one of Argentina's main oil producing areas in Chubut province. The four kilometer diameter oil ...

Jan. 3, 2008

By Environment News Service (ENS)

The gulf of Mexico oil spill: an accident waiting to happen

It"s hard to believe now, as oil from the wrecked Deepwater Horizon well encroaches on the Louisiana marshes. But it was only six weeks ago that President Obama announced a major push to expand offshore oil and gas drilling. Obama"s commitment to lift a moratorium on offshore drilling reflected the widely-held belief that offshore oil operations, once perceived as dirty and dangerous, were now so ...

May 13, 2010

By GLOBE SERIES

BP outlines plan for controlling oil spill

BP, the party responsible for the cleanup of oil spilling as a result of the sinking of the semisubmersible drilling platform Deepwater Horizon last week, on Sunday outlined a spill response plan that includes drilling relief wells and permanent capping of the well from which the sunken rig was extracting oil. The Deepwater Horizon sank two days after an explosion and fire at 10 p.m. last ...

Apr. 24, 2010

By The Compliance Center (ICC)

Thailand resort beach blackened by oil spill

Black waves of crude oil washed up on a beach at a popular tourist island in Thailand's eastern sea despite continuous attempts to clean up the oil up over the weekend after it leaked from a pipeline, officials said Monday. Tourists on Samet island were warned to stay away from the beach marred by inky globs as hundreds of workers in white jumpsuits labored to scrape the sand clean and remove the ...

Jul. 29, 2013

By Associated Press

New oil spill response initiative at clean gulf

Clean Gulf has announced that a new session has been added to its 2010 education programme, entitled Deep Offshore Prevention & Response, Future of Cooperatives. The session, on 20th October 2010, from 10:00 to 11:30 am, will spotlight the Gulf oil spill response consortium announced by four of the world's largest oil companies. The 20th Annual Clean Gulf is scheduled for 19th to 20th October ...

Sep. 29, 2010

EVTN Files Patents for Oil Spill Recovery Technology

FORTLAUDERDALE, Fla. - Enviro Voraxial Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: EVTN) today announced that the Company recently filed three patents related to oil spill recovery, more specifically its unique Submersible Voraxial® Separator. The Submersible Voraxial® Separator will be the principal element in EVTN's strategic initiative to penetrate the oil spill recovery market. ...

Sep. 8, 2010

By Enviro Voraxialtechnology, INC. (EVTN)

New efficiencies for single-vessel oil spill recovery

DESMI has introduced a new oil spill recovery product, RO-Vane, combining it with a DESMI SpeedSweep boom and RO-Skim skimmer to make cleaning up spills with just one vessel far easier, faster and more cost-effective. One system does it all Every now and then, something comes along that makes a real difference to the way an industry works. The latest addition to the portfolio of oil ...

Jan. 28, 2015

By DESMI A/S

Oil Spill Reality Check: 60,000 Reasons to Grow Beyond Oil

TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 06/16/10 -- U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's announcement that the BP oil well has been leaking up to 60,000 barrels per day is a wake-up call to grow beyond oil says the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA), which represents the major renewable fuel producers around the world. The GRFA estimates that the BP oil spill alone is equivalent to the ...

Jun. 16, 2010

Oil spills raise ocean arsenic levels

Oil spills can increase levels of toxic arsenic in the ocean, creating an additional long-term threat to the marine ecosystem. Research published in the journal Water Research describes how oil spills and leakages clog up seabed sediments, preventing them from bonding with arsenic and burying it safely underground. Arsenic is a poisonous chemical element found in minerals and is present ...

Jul. 14, 2010

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