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UPDATED 7/24/2013 3:10pm EDT with new photo, info on drilling permit. At about 11pm Central time last night, the Hercules 265 jackup drill rig in the Gulf ignited. It’s now engulfed in flames. Options for controlling the gas blowout are now a lot more limited, since the rig can’t be occupied by well-control specialists. Eventually […]
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 […]
Given the sustained intensity of the fire on the K.S. Endeavor drill rig that ignited off the coast of Nigeria yesterday morning, we’re starting to think a total loss of well control occurred. Yep, that would be a blowout. Two workers are still missing. We assume the rig was drilling Chevron’s “Funiwa Deep” natural gas […]
The Campos Basin has been cloudy so we haven’t gotten a good satellite image of the Chevron oil spill there since November 12. Chevron reported yesterday that their top-kill operation has stopped the flow of oil at a well they had been drilling from the Transocean SEDCO 706 semisubmersible drill rig, and “significantly reduced” the […]
Following up on Ben’s post Tuesday – onshore oil and natural gas drilling can impact water in different ways: 1) Water withdrawals – drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) require large quantities of water. The high-volume slickwater fracking performed on Marcellus Shale gas wells can use up to 3 million gallons of water per frack. It’s […]