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We are focusing particularly hard on the area of the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill in recent days, after documentation of slicks in the area near the Macondo well site on August 19, and about 15 miles to the northeast on August 30. The small area of thin slick sampled by Ben Raines on […]
Bonny Schumaker from On Wings of Care has been very busy flying the Gulf lately. Yesterday she flew out over the site of the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill. About 16 miles northeast of the spill site, she ran across extensive oil slicks that look to us like a lot more than the typical […]
One year ago today, after an explosion and fire that killed 11 workers and injured 17 others, a technological marvel — the Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible drill rig — slipped beneath the waves and sank in 5,000′ of water, 40 miles offshore in the deep Gulf of Mexico. The rig had drifted and burned out of […]
We just ran across an interesting pair of tables on the BOEMRE website listing all of the deepwater oil & gas wells (276) and production platforms (46) in the Gulf of Mexico. Thought we’d put them on a map to see the distribution. In this instance, “deepwater” means a water depth greater than 1,000 feet: […]
Third time’s definitely not the charm. BOEMRE just issued another permit for deepwater drilling in the Gulf, again to continue work on a well that was already underway, again with a sweeping statement of confidence: “This permit approval demonstrates that deepwater drilling can and will continue in the Gulf of Mexico provided that operators have […]