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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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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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Oil spills are man-made disasters that often disrupt the balance of marine environments. A new study reveals another disturbing fact, highlighting that such incidents have a much more harmful impact than previously thought.
The new report, issued due to a collaboration between NOAA and the UC Davis Bodega Marine La... |
28 December 2011
06:00 GMT |
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Shell's name is currently associated with an oil leak located 120 kilometers off the Nigeria cost. As a result, the company announced it would abandon its operations at the Bonga deepwater facility and focus on effective cleanup operations.
This decision is very important, since the company manages to obtain 2... |
21 December 2011
08:36 GMT |
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Wildlife Response Centre is now responsible for the fate of 43 blue penguins and one dotterel, since other 23 have been released in the vicinity of Motiti Island by a team of coastal volunteers. At this point in time, it seems that the Rena oil spill is making less and less victims, since authorities have to deal wit... |
19 December 2011
10:53 GMT |
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Bad weather is not the only factor playing with the fate of the marine ecosystem affected by the hazardous oil spill generated by the crash of cargo ship Rena.The crew in charge of cleaning up the mess has recently revealed that the presence of sharks is a major obstacle for the success of their mission, Nzherald inf... |
19 December 2011
07:37 GMT |
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Royal Dutch Shell could start its controversial oil drilling operations in Point Hope, Alaska, in 2002. Greenpeace and other eco-friendly organizations have manifested their disapproval, stating that such an action would affect the balance of a unique ecosystem.
Oil drilling is currently one of the hottest topics. ... |
16 December 2011
08:09 GMT |
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Thousands of dead birds killed during the devastating Rena oil spill, immortalized in a video, deliver a powerful message.
350 tonnes of oil that leaked into the Bay of Plenty terminated almost 20,000 birds. Their tragic ending is under the spotlight once again to make sure that deep-sea drilling projects would be p... |
12 December 2011
08:39 GMT |
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BP has launched a serious accusation, incriminating Halliburton of destroying important evidence that could shed some light on the case of the major Gulf of Mexico oil spill that took place in 2010.
BP has tried to shift responsibility, affirming in court that the US oil services company failed in providing “... |
6 December 2011
03:54 GMT |
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An oil spill has a devastating impact on marine population even after the clean-up operations are over. This is the result of a project developed for two years, in which experts tried to evaluate the total damage caused by accidental marine pollution.
In their study, scientists focused on the effects of various typ... |
2 December 2011
09:17 GMT |
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A dolphin is the lucky survivor of a mysterious die-off that is currently puzzling biologists. The creature was rescued earlier this week by authorities, after it had been found alive but badly injured on the shores of Gulf of Mexico. The coastal inhabitants from Louisiana to Florida talk about a common, alarming pro... |
1 December 2011
08:14 GMT |
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The major Gulf of Mexico oil spill may be history today, but its effects are still taking a toll on the revenue of seafood business in that area. As a result, shrimpers and crabbers will receive substantial compensation meant to make them forget, at least to a certain extent, the devastating incident ever happened. ... |
1 December 2011
05:45 GMT |
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California's researchers concluded the fact that a vessel which was sunk in World War II doesn't represent a threat for water quality. Their findings are reassuring especially nowadays, when public opinion has its eye set on the damaging effects generated by the oil spill incident in New Zealand. Due to... |
21 October 2011
03:44 GMT |
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Bad weather conditions seem to determine the delay of the cleaning process required after 350 tons of oil leaked into the water. This event is already responsible for the death of 1,300 birds. If officials don't act fast to clean-up the mess, the entire ecosystem might suffer from the damaging influence of othe... |
19 October 2011
05:04 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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A group of investigators at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) have just released a new study, which was able to identify the bacteria responsible for breaking up a large chunk of the natural gas that was released in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon spill last summer.
The investig... |
4 October 2011
01:34 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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A group of investigators has recently developed a new approach for studying how much oil and natural gas were spilling out from the BP/Deepwater Horizon spill site last spring. This is now possible by analyzing air chemistry measurements taken at the time.The method was created by scientists at the US National Oceani... |
15 March 2011
06:04 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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Studies conducted on water contaminated with oil last year show that the chemical dispersants used to break apart the material that was ejected from the bottom of the sea lingered in the waters until at least last SeptemberWhen the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible oil rig exploded and sunk into the Gulf of Mexico i... |
28 January 2011
14:01 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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Following a 9-day scientific sortie in the Gulf of Mexico, researchers in the United States found extensive damage on coral reef populations. The massive oil spill the began in April spread over a huge surface on top of the water, but also produced massive plumes underneath the waves.The investigation was conducted b... |
21 December 2010
09:24 GMT |
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In the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill that affected the Gulf of Mexico, NOAA closed down significant portions of the area for commercial and leisure fishing, so as to protect the health of the general public. Now, officials say that eight shrimp trawlers made runs into the forbidden waters. The US Na... |
23 November 2010
03:53 GMT |
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A team of biologists found a graveyard of deep-sea gorgonian corals, 11 kilometers south-west of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.These corals, which used to be quite colorful before, are now brown and have layers of peeling tissue, and it is known that when coral get stressed, they release mucus... |
8 November 2010
09:36 GMT |
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Between January and June of each year, bluefin tuna populations swim in the Gulf of Mexico to breed. This year, they were caught unprepared by the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and decimated. Investigators say that the oil spill, which began in late April, surprised the tuna as they were spawning in the waters of the G... |
18 October 2010
09:02 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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Scientists released the first sea turtles rescued and rehabilitated from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill's effects yesterday, near Cedar Key, Florida.Dr. Jane Lubchenco, NOAA administrator, and Admiral Thad Allen, along with state, federal and partner biologists released 23 Kemp's ridley sea turtles back in... |
19 August 2010
09:57 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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BP is drilling a relief well to intersect the runaway well that has been spilling oil since April. It will be used to pump heavy drilling mud and cement into the broken well, to stop the gusher. The crucial matter now is to drill the relief well vertically and to make sure that it will hit the small cashing pipe, of ... |
6 July 2010
08:28 GMT |
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A Russian newspaper recently ran a story that proposed a new method of stopping the expanding oil spill currently adorning the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. The editors write that the former Soviet Union had good results in such instances when it used targeted, tactical nukes to seal off natural gas or oil leaks. Ex... |
13 May 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Almost two weeks ago, on April 20, an explosion and subsequent fire completely destroyed the Deepwater Horizon off-shore drilling rig. The explosion enabled crude oil to spill from the newly drilled well into the Gulf of Mexico. The disaster is being labeled as the worse oil-spill accident in US history and authoriti... |
5 May 2010
09:40 GMT |
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The Gulf of Mexico is already polluted with millions of gallons of crude oil, according to the latest statistics. Despite exemplary mobilization on the part of the federal government, local authorities, and the oil company BP, clean-up efforts have been largely unsuccessful, and experts are currently analyzing method... |
5 May 2010
06:02 GMT |
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The Exxon Valdez oil spill, which took place on March 24th, 1989, was one of the most severe ecological accidents in history, contaminating a total of 11,000 square miles (28,000 square kilometers) of the ocean. The ship dumped more than 10.8 million gallons (about 40 million liters) of oil into the open sea, affecti... |
13 February 2009
10:02 GMT |
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A massive oil sludge spill took place on Sunday in a suburb near Chicago, when an open-air storage lake, filled with hydraulic and cutting oil and belonging to renown manufacturer Caterpillar Inc., overflew and spilled approximately 65,000 gallons of the stuff onto a nearby land. Though only 6,000 gallons managed to ... |
10 February 2009
05:40 GMT |
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According to new testimonies, the massive oil spill that occurred in the Mississippi river in July was caused by the jealousy of the master pilot, who was at the time on shore, chasing his girlfriend, who he suspected was cheating on him with a truck driver. As he was away, apprentice mate John Bavaret was left in ch... |
29 December 2008
17:11 GMT |
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The failure to measure its sulfur content in some gas streams generated by burning natural gas took its toll on the Exxon Mobil oil company, as officials from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Justice Department announced on Wednesday that the firm would have to pay in excess of $6.1 million in civ... |
18 December 2008
09:48 GMT |
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Early this month, a storm raging in the waters of the Black Sea led to a catastrophic oil spill, as the oil tanker seeking refuge wrecked in the Kerch Strait, and leaked over 2,000 tons of petrol. As a result of the havoc, the WWF inspectors evaluating the situation came to the conclusion that it would take at least ... |
30 November 2007
10:53 GMT |
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Five ships sank into the Black Sea due to high waves and powerful winds. One of them was an oil tanker and first estimations point that it spilled about 1,300 tonnes of fuel oil. Ecologists and environmentalists called this an "ecological catastrophe". The tanker was carrying about 4,000 tonnes when it was hit by the... |
12 November 2007
08:21 GMT |
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