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 […]
You may recall that sporadically throughout 2011 and 2012, satellite images and several aerial overflights of the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill site revealed thin, recurring oil slicks in the area. No known natural seeps were in the vicinity. One obvious possibility is that the slicks were caused by residual oil, trapped in the […]
At long last BP is finally standing trial (before a single judge, not a jury) for civil damages caused by their catastrophic blowout in the Gulf of Mexico nearly three years ago. That blowout caused an explosion and fire on the massive Deepwater Horizon drill rig that killed 11 workers, injured many others, and sent […]
We’ve been closely following recent developments at the site of BP’s disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. There’s been a nagging stream of sightings of small oil slicks in the vicinity since August 2011, more than a year after the failed Macondo well was killed and plugged. We documented these “mystery slicks” […]