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BP Raises Blowout Preventer From Macondo Well
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Government,Jones Act,Louisiana Maritime News,Transocean,World Maritime News on September 7, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, LA – On Saturday, September 4, 2010, the blowout preventer from the Maconhttp://www.offshoreinjuries.com/blog/do well that was involved in the worst oil spill in U.S. history was raised from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico by BP (British Petroleum) . The disaster occurred in April, 2010 on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig… read more
Last Day of August Deepwater Horizon Hearings Yields Hope for the Future
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Government,Transocean,World Maritime News on August 30, 2010
On the last day of the fourth week of the Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Task Force hearings, Mr. Brett Cocales, a BP Operations Drilling Engineer that was in the line of authority on the Macondo well, revealed that Sperry sends real-time data from all of BP’s Gulf of Mexico projects to the BP home office… read more
Federal Investigators Hold Hearings to Get to Bottom of Gulf Oil Spill Disaster
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Government,Gulf Coast,Maritime Law,Transocean on August 23, 2010
HOUSTON, TX – Federal investigators will again try to question witnesses on the Gulf Oil Spill in the fourth of a continuing series of hearings by the joint panel of the U.S. Coast Guard and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (formerly the MMS – Minerals Management Service) in Houston, Texas on August… read more
Transocean tries to Limit Liability in Gulf Oil Spill after Moody’s Downgrades Credit Rating
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Gulf Coast,Transocean on August 23, 2010
HOUSTON, TX – The U.S. Coast Guard hearings into the Deepwater Horizon disaster is scheduled to resume on Monday, August 23, 2010 in Houston, Texas. The timing of these hearings is not good for Transocean, the owner of the ill fated rig that exploded and sank in the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. On… read more
BP $20B Fund Denies Deepwater Horizon Dead and Injured Compensation
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Government,Gulf Coast,Maritime Law,Maritime Lawsuits,Texas Maritime News,Transocean,World Maritime News on August 20, 2010
HOUSTON, TX — Dead and injured victims of the Deepwater Horizon disaster that occurred April 20, 2010, have been denied the right to collect monies from the BP $20 billion dollar compensation fund. While the fund protocol says that all workers injured or killed as a result of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon or… read more
Scientific Study: Most of BP Oil Spill Still Remains in Gulf of Mexico
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Gulf Coast,World Maritime News on August 19, 2010
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA (UGA) – A group of scientists working from the University of Georgia has done a study that contradicts the recent National Incident Command (NIC) findings on the amount of oil still remaining from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The scientists believe that nearly 3/4ths of the oil is… read more
Transocean Withheld Internal Report That Proved Fatal For Deepwater Horizon 11
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Gulf Coast,Transocean,World Maritime News on August 16, 2010
Confidential internal documents from Transocean reveal that on December 23, 2009 there was a blowout on one of their drilling rigs in the North Sea at 5:10 pm that was eerily similar to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Drilling mud was being replaced by seawater when the blowout occurred. Fortunately, in that incident, the Blowout Preventer… read more
BP Will Pay $50.6M Fine for Deadly 2005 Texas City Refinery Explosion
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Government,Texas Maritime News,World Maritime News on August 13, 2010
HOUSTON, TX – The US Government said Thursday that BP will pay a record $50.6 million fine for lingering safety problems from a deadly 2005 explosion that killed 15 workers at its Texas City, Texas refinery. The fine is the latest blow to hit the giant oil company still reeling from the biggest marine oil… read more
Three Other Transocean Oil Wells Had Safety Problems
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Gulf Coast,Transocean on August 9, 2010
NEW YORK TIMES – According to an article in the New York Times, Transocean, the company that owned the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon, had safety concerns for several of its drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico prior to the April, 2010 disaster. According to confidential internal reports, about a month before the explosion and subsequent… read more
Congress Seeks to Change Maritime Laws That Limit Oil Rig Damages
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Government,Gulf Coast,Jones Act,Louisiana Maritime News,Maritime Law,Texas Maritime News,Transocean on August 4, 2010
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are seeking to make changes to Maritime laws dating back 159 years in order to get more compensation for survivors of the oil rig workers killed on The Deepwater Horizon oil rig tragedy on April 20, 2010. One law dates back to 1851. “This gives some ability that the survivors… read more