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Oil Companies Form $1 Billion Venture to Fight Deepwater Gulf Spills
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,Deepwater Horizon,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on August 2, 2010
Four of the world’s biggest oil companies said Wednesday, July 28, that they have formed a new joint venture to fight deepwater gulf spills.The four oil companies are Exxon, Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips. Each will contribute 25 percent to a $1 billion company that would be able to mobilize a response within 24 hours to… read more
Deepwater Horizon Hearing Cancelled After Witnesses Have Little To Say
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Florida Maritime News,Louisiana Maritime News,Maritime Law,Maritime Lawsuits,Texas Maritime News,Transocean on July 22, 2010
KENNER, LA. – Witnesses thought to have sensitive information had little to say at the Deepwater Horizon disaster hearings conducted Tuesday, July 20, by a joint investigative board of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, the agency formerly known as the Minerals Management Service. At the end… read more
BP Says Leak in Pipe is Fixed, Testing To Begin
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Environment,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on July 15, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, La. – BP said Thursday they hope to restart the testing process on the cap it’s put on top of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill now that a leak in the machinery has been fixed.
Crawfisher Drew Landry Sings Stirring Folk Song to Oil Spill Commission (VIDEO)
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Government,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on July 14, 2010
Louisiana crawfisher, Drew Landry, a native of Lafeyette, Louisiana and a Cajun singer-songwriter, addresses the White House Oil Spill Commission and sings about the devasting economic environment, the effect on the unemployed workers and ecosystem The song is a moving real honest to goodness folk song that evokes emotion and tells the story of the… read more
Kevin Costner Oil Cleaning Machine Heads to Clean Up BP Oil Spill
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on July 9, 2010
PORT FOURCHON, La. – BP COO Doug Suttles and actor Kevin Costner, co-founder of Ocean Therapy, announced that the Ella G. vessel set sail on Thursday July 8, 2010, carrying Ocean Therapy’s centrifuge system to separate oil and water.
Tar Balls From Gulf Oil Spill Wash Onto Texas Beach
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on July 6, 2010
TEXAS CITY, Texas – A small number of tar balls washed onto a Texas beach, which means the spill has now affected every single Gulf state. Officials say there’s no way to tell if the tar balls came off a ship or arrived some other way. The Associated Press reports that a “bucket’s worth of… read more
Jimmy Buffet Tells Anderson Cooper He’s Angry About Oil Soaked Gulf States
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News on July 2, 2010
GULF COAST – Famous “Margaritaville” musician and Gulf coast resident and business owner Jimmy Buffett talks to Anderson Cooper about his reaction to the BP oil spill. “You’re not human if anger isn’t your first emotion,” Buffett tells Cooper while walking along a Gulf beach where he spent many of his younger days. Jimmy expresses… read more
Hurricane Alex Could Halt Oil Spill Cleanup
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on June 30, 2010
BROWNSVILLE, TX – Hurricane Alex, the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2010 season, was bearing down on Mexico and the southern Texas coastline, far from the spill but generating waves big enough to hamper the cleanup effort 500 miles away. Oil cleanup workers were evacuated from the beach in Port Fourchon, La., on Tuesday because… read more
Aerial View of Gulf Oil Spill Day 49 – Video & Photos
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News on June 8, 2010
GRAND ISLE, La – Kerry Sanders from The Today Show took a flight, June 7, on a Coast Guard helicopter for an aerial view of the Gulf Coast disaster. The view shows the scope of the devastation of the oil spill on day 49 of the greatest environmental disaster of our time. As Sanders reports… read more
BP Captures More Oil But Spill Could Go Into Fall
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Government,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Transocean on June 7, 2010
Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, appearing on CBS Face The Nation, said on Sunday that BP was succeeding in capturing more oil from its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico, but cautioned that efforts to cap and clean up what’s already the largest oil spill in American history would stretch into the fall. “We’re… read more