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Gorgeous Mississippi Delta
/in Gulf of Mexico /by John AmosLet’s start the day with something pretty: yesterday’s MODIS/Aqua satellite image of the Gulf is one of the most beautiful views of the Mississippi Delta that I’ve ever seen. Tropical Storm Lee has just moved inland after drenching the coast, and the patterns of turbidity and sediment fringing the vibrant green vegetation are stunning. Wish […]
ConocoPhillips Oil Spill in Bohai Bay – They Have Company
/in Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosThe Chinese government and fishermen are really hammering ConocoPhillips over their recent and apparently still unresolved pair of oil spills from two platforms at the Penglai 19-3 offshore field in Bohai Bay. We observed small oil slicks there on a radar image taken on June 11. Reports of continued leakage from one of the platforms, […]
August 30 Oil Slicks In Gulf – Closest Facilities
/4 Comments/in BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Monitoring Consortium, Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosTropical Storm Lee is drenching the Gulf and has put the kibosh on any Gulf Monitoring Consortium investigations for the next few days (even radar satellite images will be screwed up by the heavy rain and gusty winds), so we’ll have to wait and see what next week brings. In the meantime, one of our […]
Radar Satellite Image Shows Oil Slicks Seen August 30
/in BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas /by John AmosAn Envisat ASAR satellite radar image of the Gulf taken at about 10:50 pm local time on August 30 shows distinctive slicks corresponding with video and photos taken during an overflight earlier that day by Bonny Schumaker / On Wings of Care. This image is complicated – NOAA/NODC data buoys in the area recorded very […]
Problems With Major Gas Pipeline in Gulf
/2 Comments/in Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosYesterday BP shut down a major natural-gas pipeline in the central Gulf of Mexico because it’s producing too much liquid. Today they announced the shutdown will be extended because of a potential tropical storm brewing in the Gulf. The Destin pipeline (here’s a nice map) is a major piece of offshore oil and gas infrastructure, […]
Oil Slicks Sighted Yesterday 16 Miles from BP / Deepwater Horizon Spill Site
/in BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosBonny Schumaker from On Wings of Care has been very busy flying the Gulf lately. Yesterday she flew out over the site of the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill. About 16 miles northeast of the spill site, she ran across extensive oil slicks that look to us like a lot more than the typical […]