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Gulf Coast Real Estate Professionals to Receive Compensation From BP Oil Spill
Posted in Alabama Maritime News,BP British Petroleum,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News on September 10, 2010
WASHINGTON D.C. – Kenneth Feinberg, Administrator of the $20 billion BP Oil Spill Fund or GCCF (Gulf Coast Claims Facility), announced that he would set aside $60 million for claims by real estate agents and brokers who have lost sales or commissions as a result of the Gulf oil spill. Funds will be avaialable to… read more
BP Bly Investigation Report: How Reliable is it?
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Texas Maritime News,Transocean,World Maritime News on September 8, 2010
The long awaited Bly Investigation Report was released by BP on Wednesday, September 8, 2010. The report was generated by a BP investigative team led by Mark Bly, BP’s head of safety and operations.
Another Oil Rig Explosion in The Gulf Of Mexico
Posted in Environment,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Texas Maritime News,World Maritime News on September 2, 2010
GULF OF MEXICO – Another oil rig explosion has occurred and caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico early Thursday morning, September, 2, 2010. The offshore explosion happened about 80 miles south of Grand Isle, La. and about 90 miles south of Vermilion Bay. Rescue choppers from New Orleans and Houston are responding along with… read more
Deepwater Horizon Minimum Safe Manning Certificate was Misclassified
Posted in Deepwater Horizon,Government,Gulf Coast,Maritime Law,Transocean,World Maritime News on August 26, 2010
HOUSTON, TX – At the United States Coast Guard Hearing, USCG, in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday, August 25, 2010, the flag state Marshall Islands for the Deepwater Horizon stunned the Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Task Force when it admitted that the there had been a “clerical error” in 2004 when it issued the Minimum Safe… read more
Coast Guard Hearings Focus on Command Structure in Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Posted in Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Gulf Coast,Maritime Law,Texas Maritime News,Transocean on August 25, 2010
HOUSTON, TX – An article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) website on August 23, 2010 describes some of the topics under discussion at the hearings in Houston, Texas on the Deepwater Horizon disaster. On Monday, August 23, 2010, the fourth round of hearings into by the joint panel of the U.S. Coast Guard and… 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