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Constant pushes from the Mississippi River ensured that the bulk of the oil slick produced in the Gulf of Mexico by the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill did not reach more coastlines than it did. In other words, the river limited the extent of the devastation that may have occurred.
Scientists were expecting the coas... |
11 May 2012
08:15 GMT |
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The Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill that lasted from April 20 until July 15, 2010, had far-reaching effects on marine ecosystems. In a recent investigation, experts supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) found that deepwater corals were also severely affected.
The investigation was conducted in the Gu... |
27 March 2012
07:31 GMT |
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More than 80 percent of the fines that oil giant British Petroleum (BP) will pay for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill will go to the five Gulf states that were affected by pollution. The cash may be used for ecological and economic restoration, as well as for scientific research.These are the provisions of the RE... |
9 March 2012
05:59 GMT |
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After a year dominated by uncertainties for major players operating on the solar power market, BP has announced its plans to let go of its eco-friendly projects developed in this sector.
The main reason is that, apparently, selling photovoltaic panels does not draw up a profitable line of business anymore, the Guard... |
21 December 2011
10:15 GMT |
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Officials from BP and Anadarko Petroleum managed to come to an agreement, regarding their financial obligations after 4 million barrels of oil from the Mississippi Canyon Block 252 ended up into the sea. The multinational oil company managed to obtain a good deal. The organization accepted a $4 billion payment fr... |
17 October 2011
08:30 GMT |
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About 0.5 percent of all oil that was dumped in the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 BP/Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill – the equivalent of 1 in 20 barrels – was burned during the first days of response to the emergency. A new study quantifies the effects this decision had on the environment.
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21 September 2011
04:24 GMT |
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BP is dealing with a data breach incident after one of its employees lost a laptop computer containing the personal details of thousands of compensation claimants.The lost personal information belongs to 13,000 people who filed claims related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and includes names, addresses, phone num... |
30 March 2011
05:58 GMT |
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Although a lot less exposed to the media than large animals and birds, microorganisms such as bacteria and microbes were also seriously affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill last year. This discovery goes a long way towards showing the real extent of the damage the catastrophic event caused. Scientists say t... |
4 March 2011
05:10 GMT |
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People familiar with investigations into a recently disclosed industrial cyber espionage operation, claim that Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc were among the targeted companies.Two weeks ago, McAfee published a white paper describing hacker attacks that siphoned sensitive data from the computers o... |
26 February 2011
04:58 GMT |
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Marine biologists and ocean scientists are currently trying to figure out a mystery that has been surrounding the Gulf of Mexico these past few weeks. Chemical analysis reveal little traces of methane, the most common hydrocarbon that was produced in these water following the 2010 oil spill. According to the results ... |
7 January 2011
10:06 GMT |
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Reports in the media indicate that the first major legal action has just been taken to punish those responsible for the chain of events that led to the catastrophic oil spill that affected the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year. British Petroleum and eight other companies have just been sued. The action was undertaken ... |
16 December 2010
10:16 GMT |
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Officials at NOAA announced that a new swath of ocean has been reopened to commercial and recreational fishing. There were no contaminants found in the region to justify keeping it closed anymore.The decision was taken by experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Food and Drug Admi... |
16 October 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Officials at British Petroleum announce that they have just awarded a research grant to experts studying the effects of the massive oil spill that took place in the Gulf of Mexico.The disaster began unfolding on April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible drilling rig blew up, and then sunk. Oil began spill... |
25 August 2010
10:12 GMT |
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Preliminary reports presented at the semiannual meeting of the American Chemical Society showed that even though the BP oil spill's financial and personal tolls for humans were devastating, damage is quite limited for the environment.Take seafood for example: until now, chemical testing on hasn't yet turned... |
25 August 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Experts at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have recently released a new report on the state of the Gulf of Mexico. The document shows that the oil slick generated by the Deepwater Horizon accident is far from reaching Southern Florida, the Florida Keys and the East Coast, given that it&#... |
31 July 2010
04:07 GMT |
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Officials at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a complete report on the quality of the air around the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill area yesterday, July 21. The document is based on measurements that the agency collected around the disaster site in June. More than 100 air polluta... |
22 July 2010
06:58 GMT |
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A new cap, that can contain up to 80,000 barrels of oil a day will be installed by BP. The pressure comes from the American administration that estimated that the well is leaking around 60,000 barrels a day.British Petroleum, whose Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded and sank nearly three months ago, has bee... |
10 July 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Two Russian-built submersibles would be able to stop the oil leak from Deepwater Horizon site in the Gulf of Mexico. Their captain, Yevgenii Chernyaev is positive about it and says that it is not yet too late. The two submersibles that can reach depths of 6,000 meters can succeed in putting a cap over the oil leak, b... |
9 July 2010
04:14 GMT |
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A collaboration of scientists in the United States has recently pooled its resources together to produce the most up-to-date estimate of precisely how much oil is flowing in the Gulf of Mexico. The crude has been pouring into the waters since April 20, when the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible drilling rig, operate... |
11 June 2010
10:17 GMT |
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BP, the oil giant pretty much responsible for the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, has a lot of problems on its hands. Not only is it trying to plug the oil leak in the middle of the ocean, it’s also trying to plug the bad publicity leak in the media and especially online. It’s failing miserably to... |
9 June 2010
06:44 GMT |
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Scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that they have extended the area in the Gulf of Mexico that is closed for fishing. The measure was taken because experts discovered oil sheens at previously undetected locations. Federal authorities and oil company BP are struggling... |
4 June 2010
03:08 GMT |
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Officials in the United States said recently that the federal government might push British oil company BP out of the way, and assume command of the clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico. Even though British Petroleum is the only company involved in the efforts that has the know-how to seal a spill taking place at s... |
24 May 2010
05:46 GMT |
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For almost a month now, oil has been spilling at a very high rate into the Gulf of Mexico, from a drilling site tapped by the Deepwater Horizon rig. On April 20, the rig blew up and then sunk into the Gulf on April 22. Since then, oil company BP, the operator of the rig, and US federal authorities have been working a... |
17 May 2010
06:05 GMT |
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The oil spill that resulted from the incident on April 20 involving the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform is constantly increasing in size. Officials in the United States say that the extent of the damage is still unclear, but add that as much as 1,000 barrels of crude may be seeping into the Gulf of Mexico each da... |
26 April 2010
09:58 GMT |
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An official Electronic Arts report reveals that the giant publisher along with BP have collaborated to include climate change education within SimCity Societies. The collaboration brings together world-class game building skills and industry expertise on energy, electricity production and greenhouse gas emissions to ... |
11 October 2007
05:55 GMT |
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