Category: Florida Maritime News

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

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

Tar Balls Found on Florida Beaches in the Panhandle

Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Transocean on June 4, 2010

PENSACOLA, FL – Officials have said it is inevitable oil will eventually wash up on Panhandle beaches after a slick from the Deepwater Horizon spill was spotted about 9 miles offshore this week. The edge of the spill had moved to four miles off the coast Thursday, Gov. Charlie Crist said after a flyover. Small… read more