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Platform 23051 / Ocean Saratoga Site Revisited

Remember way back in mid-summer, during the peak of the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf, when we found an unrelated leak in the vicinity? We noticed a small but persistent slick on satellite images from multiple dates, originating near the location of Platform 23051. Photographer J Henry Fair flew over the […]

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Our Changing Oceans conference in DC, January 19-21, 2011

Early-bird registration for NCSE‘s 11th annual conference on science, policy and the environment closes Friday, so hurry up to get that discount: this year’s theme is Our Changing Oceans, and it features a full day of sessions on the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill – its impacts, what we can do to improve drilling […]

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Mariner Energy Gas and Oil Rig – MODIS Imagery, September 2, 2010

Here at SkyTruth we finally got NASA/MODIS satellite imagery taken yesterday of the Gulf of Mexico, covering both the BP/Deepwater Horizon/Macondo well site and the location of the Mariner Energy platform that caught on fire yesterday morning while workers were painting it. Everyone was rescued and the fire was extinguished later that day. Early reports […]

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Mariner Energy Gas and Oil Rig – Location Map

Here’s a map showing the location of Mariner’s burning rig relative to BP’s infamous Macondo well (still only temporarily plugged, awaiting a final “bottom kill” operation). The Mariner gas and oil rig is situated near the edge of the continental shelf, 100 miles off the Lousiana coast, 240 miles west of Macondo, in a water […]

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Oil Rig On Fire Off Louisiana Coast

Breaking news – we just learned that an oil platform operated by Mariner Energy about 100 miles off the Louisiana Coast is on fire. 13 workers, who were on board when an explosion occurred about 9am Central time today, have been rescued from the water; one was injured. The platform (Vermilion Oil Platform 380) is […]