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Gustav Gives US A Break

September 9, 2008/in Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas /by John Amos

Too 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 […]

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Uh Oh – Here Comes Gustav?!

August 29, 2008/in Gulf of Mexico, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John Amos

Here 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. […]