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Gas Well Blowout in the North Sea

On March 26, Total reported a gas leak that forced them to evacuate more than 200 workers from a production platform in the Elgin field of the central North Sea, about 150 miles east of Aberdeen, Scotland.  It soon became clear they had an uncontrolled blowout of natural gas and liquid gas condensate, a potentially […]

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Slicks in Campos Basin, Offshore Brazil – March 20, 2012

Brazil is coming down hard on Chevron for the relatively modest oil spill that occurred last November when they lost control of a deepwater exploration well in the Frade field of the Campos Basin, about 75 miles offshore.  A federal prosecutor just filed a lawsuit and criminal charges against Chevron and their drilling contractor Transocean.  […]

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Mystery Slicks in Central Gulf – East Cameron South, Block 321

Every now and then we see something in SkyTruth Alerts that catches our eye. For the past few days we’ve noticed repeated reports of an unknown oil slick sighted near some platforms near Block 321 in the East Cameron (South Addition) area of the central Gulf of Mexico, about 92 miles off the Louisiana coast. […]

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Chevron Reports Minor Slick From Leak in Campos Basin, Offshore Brazil

Chevron and Brazilian regulators reported that a small, fresh oil slick has appeared near the site of Chevron’s blowout last November in the deepwater Frade oil field in Brazil’s prolific Campos Basin. This is not entirely unexpected given the nature of the problem that Chevron had with the well being drilled by the SEDCO 706 […]

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Small Slick at Chevron’s Blowout off Nigeria

Chevron’s gas-well blowout in the Funiwa field off Nigeria continues to burn as efforts are underway to drill a relief well. This Envisat ASAR satellite radar image taken today (February 27) shows a small slick apparently emanating from the site where the doomed KS Endeavor rig was drilling. We’ve seen a small slick repeatedly at […]