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Gulf Oil Spill Senate Hearings Organized by Sen. Marco Rubio to Be Held in Pensacola
Posted in Deepwater Horizon,Florida Maritime News,Government,Gulf Coast,Maritime Accidents on June 30, 2011
WASHINGTON — A Senate hearing before the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee will be held in Pensacola on July 11, 2011 where business leaders from Florida’s Panhandle will describe the region’s economic and environmental recovery from last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Witnesses at the hearing will include Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll; Collier Merrill,… read more
Transocean Issues Report Blames BP for Gulf Oil Spill
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Gulf Coast,Halliburton,Maritime Accidents,Maritime Law,Maritime Lawsuits,Transocean,World Maritime News on June 23, 2011
Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded last year on April 20, 2010 killing 11 oil rig workers and spread millions of gallons of oil across gulf waters and beaches, has issued an extensive report Wednesday that points most of the blame at BP, the owner of the Macondo well. In… read more
Transocean High Ranking Oil Rig Worker Plans to Invoke 5th Amendment
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Government,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Maritime Law,Maritime Lawsuits,Texas Maritime News,Transocean,World Maritime News on June 21, 2011
HOUSTON, TX – A high ranking Transocean oil rig worker, who was on the Deepwater Horizon when it explode on April 20, 2010, has refused to testify in civil lawsuits over the disaster. Jimmy Harrell, the rig’s offshore installation manager, was in charge of drilling activities on the Deepwater Horizon, when it exploded while drilling… read more
Gulf Oil Spill Panel Appointed to Hear Appeals from Dissatisfied Claimants
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Maritime Law on June 14, 2011
NEW ORLEANS, La. – The chancellor of the Louisiana State University law center, Jack Weiss, has appointed a 25 member panel to hear appeals from claimants who were dissatisfied with the way the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) established by BP handles their claims. The GCCF was formed after the Deepwater Horizon disaster on April… read more
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Government,Gulf Coast,Maritime Accidents,Transocean,US Coast Guard (USCG),World Maritime News on June 2, 2011
With just a little over one year since the tragic Deepwater Horizon disaster that claimed the lives of 11 oil rig workers, Doug Brown, one of the 10 most injured survivors of the blast, has become an advocate for improvements in offshore safety. Brown has been living with the first-hand memories of that deadly night… read more
UWF Researchers Say Chemical Dispersants Are More Harmful Than Oil Spill Alone
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Florida Maritime News,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,World Maritime News on June 1, 2011
PENSACOLA, FL – Wade Jeffrey, a University of West Florida (UWF) biologist with the Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation, presented crucial research to an oil task force that convened in Pensacola Florida. The findings found that the chemical sprayed in the Gulf to break up the BP oil spill may not have been effective… read more
BP Lawyer Argues to New Orleans Federal Judge to Dismiss Some Spill Damage Claims
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Maritime Law,Maritime Lawsuits,World Maritime News on May 27, 2011
NEW ORLEANS, La. – BP’s lawyer, Andrew Langan, argued to a New Orleans federal judge on Wednesday, May 25, that spill victims can only sue for economic losses under specific laws governing offshore spills and that lawsuits filed under other statutes should be dismissed. “BP’s position is not that every single claim needs to be… read more
Flood Update: Mississippi River Rising in Louisiana
Posted in Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News on May 18, 2011
BATON ROUGE, La. – State agencies in Louisiana continued their flood preparation and response efforts on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. The rising water is slowly taking over thousands of acres of farmland. The state estimates 18 thousand acres of crops will be lost.
BP Faces Hundreds of Civil Suits For Denying Oil Spill Claims
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Government,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Maritime Lawsuits on May 13, 2011
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Hundreds of lawsuits against British Petroleum Plc (BP) have been consolidated in Federal Court in New Orleans alleging that the company is refusing to accept liability for losses due to the BP oil spill following the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. A $20 billion oil spill fund was established following the… read more
US Approves Shell Oil Deepwater Drilling Plan
Posted in BP British Petroleum,Deepwater Horizon,Environment,Government,Gulf Coast,Royal Dutch Shell,World Maritime News on May 11, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Government approved on Wednesday, May 11, a Royal Dutch Shell PLC plan to drill for oil in five locations deep under the Gulf of Mexico. Over objections from environmental groups, the Shell plan is the second deep-water exploration plan approved in the Gulf since the government lifted a moratorium on… read more