Nearly four years after the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil and gas disaster in the Gulf of Mexico — an event that blew away the record books for the nation’s worst accidental oil spill — BP is fully back in business, and drilling is booming in the Gulf of Mexico. Last week the US Environmental […]
[With the recent massive oil spill in North Dakota from a pipeline carrying Bakken Shale crude oil liberated by hydraulic fracturing, we thought it was time to take a look at pipeline oversight. And for this topic, we need an expert. Say hello to today’s guest columnist: Lois N. Epstein, P.E. is a licensed civil […]
Back in late August we posted about a gas well on fire in the Caspian Sea at a drilling rig in the Bulla Deniz gas field. Well guess what – 61 days later it’s still burning! The SOCAR No. 90 exploration well is reportedly around 18,000 feet deep (5,500 meters), but this part of the […]
A judge in New Orleans is now pondering a big-money question: how big was the 2010 BP oil spill? Exactly how much oil gushed into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico throughout the relentless summer of the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil (and gas) disaster? The Summer of Spillcam? Thar she blows: BP spill […]
It appears that we’ve lost one of the most important tools in the field of Earth observation: on April 8, the Envisat satellite stopped communicating with its handlers at the European Space Agency. While this is not happy news, the satellite was a real workhorse well beyond its expected lifespan and was an outstanding success […]