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Hurricane Ike – Heading For Galveston?
/in Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas /by John AmosThe latest National Weather Service forecast is predicting Hurricane Ike will take a sharper turn to the north, putting Galveston and Houston (and more of the offshore and coastal oil and gas facilities) in the line of fire. Here is the latest 3-day track prediction. As of this morning Ike is a very large Category […]
Hurricane Ike Heads For Western Gulf
/in Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas /by John AmosAfter pounding Cuba, Hurricane Ike has entered the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 1 storm, and is expected to strengthen over the next couple of days into a major hurricane. The latest forecast track shows Ike aiming for the western Gulf and the Texas coast, taking a swipe at the offshore oil and gas […]
Gustav Gives US A Break
/in Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas /by John AmosToo soon to say for sure — we haven’t yet seen any of the satellite images of the Gulf that were taken in the wake of Hurricane Gustav last week — but we haven’t heard of any offshore or onshore oil spills like those following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. One drill-rig operator, Transocean, reported some […]
Uh Oh – Here Comes Gustav?!
/in Gulf of Mexico, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosHere we go again? Hopefully not, but exactly three years ago today, Hurricane Katrina made landfall after buzzing through the offshore oilfields in the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 5 storm (we documented some of the resulting offshore oil spills), and now it looks like Hurricane Gustav may be heading for the same trajectory. […]
Video Showing History and Extent of Drilling in the Rockies
/in Oil & Gas /by John AmosAs seen yesterday morning in the “Big Tent” at the DNC in Denver: For The Wilderness Society, SkyTruth produced a 3-1/2 minute narrated video showing the extent of drilling across the Rocky Mountain states, featuring a time-lapse animation of the drilling history of Wyoming. You can access the video at the Better Energy website, view […]
New Map – Conflicts Over Drilling in the Rocky Mountain West
/in Oil & Gas /by John AmosWe’ve been having fun with the MyMaps application in Google Maps. Anyone can build their own custom maps and publish them online. This is really useful and kind of fun if you’re a map-geek like me. We just created a map of the Rocky Mountain states (CO, MT, NM, UT, WY) showing some of the […]