Offshore

Trinidad and Tobago’s Offshore Infrastructure Cumulative Spill Report 2020 – 2021

February 1, 2022/in Climate, Conservation Vision, Internship, Oceans, Offshore, Offshore Drilling, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by Breanna Xiong

SkyTruth’s project Cerulean helped intern Breanna Xiong document Trinidad and Tobago’s chronic oil pollution problem.

Trinidad and Tobago – the small dual-island Caribbean nation – has been a top exporter of liquefied natural gas for years. Because of its significant oil and gas exploration, and what some Trinidadians would call poor corporate and government responsibility, oil leakages from offshore infrastructure are very common events in Trinidad’s waters. With the help of satellite imagery, SkyTruth has been able to directly observe and continuously monitor Trinidad’s chronic oil pollution.

SkyTruth Alerts helps Healthy Gulf track pollution

November 15, 2021/in Alerts, Gulf of Mexico, Impact stories, Oceans, Offshore, Offshore Drilling, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by Amy Mathews

With the intense concentration of polluters and frequent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the watchdog group Healthy Gulf relies on Alerts to flag dangerous incidents.

Naomi Yoder works as a geospatial analyst for the environmental group Healthy Gulf identifying pollution events, tracking trends and pushing for reform to reduce pollution. “SkyTruth Alerts is so useful. I can’t say it enough.”

Owning Up to Oil: Trinidad and Tobago

November 12, 2020/in Fishing, Offshore, Offshore Drilling, Oil Spill /by Sasha Bylsma

Oil spills off Trinidad indicate chronic problems with infrastructure.

Although many people might not realize it, the small two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago located off Venezuela’s east coast has been involved in the fossil fuel industry for over a century. While recent media attention has focused on a listing tanker off the coast of Trinidad, SkyTruth analysis of satellite imagery reveals that oil slicks around offshore oil and gas infrastructure throughout the region is common, threatening local fisheries, fishermen, and ecosystems.

Conservation Vision at Work

October 28, 2020/in Alerts, Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Climate, Coal, Conservation Vision, Freshwater, Harmful Algal Blooms, Hydraulic Fracturing, Mountaintop Mining, Oceans, Offshore, Protected Area Monitoring /by John Amos

SkyTruth is automating image analysis for conservation.

If you’d like to hear more about Conservation Vision please join me and a few of our experts at SkyTruth tomorrow (Thursday, October 29, 5-6pm Eastern) for an online presentation and Q&A we call Cutting Edge Conservation with SkyTruth. Click here to register in advance for this event – space is limited!

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Ten years ago SkyTruth Revealed the Truth about the BP Oil Spill

April 27, 2020/in Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, BP, Climate, Gulf of Mexico, Oceans, Offshore, Offshore Drilling, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by Amy Mathews

SkyTruth video highlights our work fighting oil pollution, then and now.

Ten years ago last week, BP’s Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 men and setting off the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. SkyTruth was there; not in person but remotely; using satellite imagery to track the spill from space. Watch our four-minute video to learn more about the disaster, and what SkyTruth is doing now to stop oil pollution at sea.

Archive for category: Offshore

SkyTruth’s project Cerulean helped intern Breanna Xiong document Trinidad and Tobago’s chronic oil pollution problem.

With the intense concentration of polluters and frequent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the watchdog group Healthy Gulf relies on Alerts to flag dangerous incidents.

Oil spills off Trinidad indicate chronic problems with infrastructure.

SkyTruth is automating image analysis for conservation.

SkyTruth video highlights our work fighting oil pollution, then and now.