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Fingers crossed: it looks like the cap on BP’s Macondo well will hold until the relief well intercepts and permanently plugs it, and no more oil from this blowout will enter the Gulf. So here’s a map showing the cumulative oil slick footprint for the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill, created by overlaying all […]
The center of Bonnie’s circulation appears close to the Macondo well site on a CSK radar satellite image taken July 24. CSK and MODIS satellite images the next day, July 25, show remnants of the BP oil slick scattered around the Mississippi Delta. No new oil is seen around the well site; it’s been tightly […]
More good news for the Gulf: Bonnie was a bust. She blew over the BP / Deepwater Horizon spill site Saturday morning as a rapidly weakening tropical depression. NOAA weather buoys and stations in the eastern Gulf barely registered her passing, with sustained winds at the leak site only briefly exceeding 14 meters per second […]
Sometime last week, two pipelines in the port city of Dalian, China, exploded and burned, and a large quantity of oil was released into the Yellow Sea. One firefighter lost his life. There are some harrowing pictures of oil-covered firemen being pulled from the water. Officials report that 165 square miles of ocean was covered […]
We’ve been getting a lot of TV, radio, print and Web interviews and other coverage since the BP / Deepwater Horizon spill began back in April. Media interest focused on our early determination that the oil spill rate was much larger than official BP and government estimates; testimony in November 2009 warning Congress about the […]