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We’re still trying to figure out what caused that big smoke plume we saw in the Marlim Sul oil field of the Campos Basin, about 70 miles off the coast of Brazil, on a December 31 satellite image. So far, we’ve looked at data showing the locations of active exploration wells (where we would expect […]
Ever since Shell’s oil spill from their FPSO in the Bonga field, we’ve been monitoring offshore Nigeria for oil pollution. Radar images of this area are often riddled with narrow ribbons and small blobs where something oily may be floating on the surface of the water. Teri noticed a suspicious slick on an image taken […]
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. […]
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 […]
After flying journalists over the remnants of the Bonga FPSO oil spill off Nigeria,Shell pointed out that they are not the only polluters in this part of the world, and will clean up another small spill in the area not related to any of their operations. That certainly doesn’t excuse their (much larger) mess but […]