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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
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
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
U.S. Govt Considers Early End To Deep Water Drilling Ban
Posted in Alaska Maritime News,California Maritime News,Environment,Government,Gulf Coast,Louisiana Maritime News,Mississippi Maritime News,Texas Maritime News,World Maritime News on August 16, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, LA — The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (previously the Minerals Management Service) is hosting a series of public forums, which began Wednesday, August 4, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. This is the first in a series of public forums scheduled over the next six weeks for Louisiana, California, Alaska,… 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
Cargo Ship Runs Aground Off India Coast Near Mumbai (VIDEO)
Posted in Environment,Maritime Law,World Maritime News on August 11, 2010
MUMBAI, INDIA – Two cargo ships collided with each other on Saturday, August 7, 2010 in the Arabian Sea off the coast of India near Mumbai. The collision triggered an oil spill and about 500 tons of oil spewed from one of the vessels. The two ships involved in the collision were the MSC Chitra… read more