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Security seemed an afterthought before the BP oil spill
In the years preceding last year’s Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil industry and federal regulators put the first exploration and production, according to an independent report. The petroleum industry and federal regulators more focused on exploration and production over safety in the years preceding the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which set the stage for the worst offshore environmental disaster in U.S. history, according to a new independent report the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council. (more…)
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Return to Gulf: Grabs Big Oil Leases
First auction of Deep-Water Blocks Since BP Disaster draws $ 337.6 million in winning bids. The oil and gas industry took a step from the shadow of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on Wednesday when federal officials unsealed more than $ 330 million in winning bids for drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico, the first is offered since the fatal accident in April 2010. Approximately 21 million acres of federal waters, an area roughly the size of South Carolina, stretching hundreds of miles off the Texas coast were discussed. The auction attracted $ 337.6 million in winning bids for the 191 available blocks that could eventually lead to more than 400 million barrels of oil production. (more…)
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Gulf oil spill can cause permanent damage to fish populations, study finds
Fish in the Gulf of Mexico marshes exposed to oil spill last year have cellular changes that can lead to developmental and reproductive problems undergo a group of researchers reported Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and the BP-funded Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, says scientists have just begun the spillover effects of the ecological impact record. The team of researchers at Louisiana State, Texas State and Clemson universities focused on the killifish, minnowlike a fish that is abundant and a good indicator of the health of the wetlands. (more…)
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BP looks to get back into deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
After lying low in the Gulf of Mexico for about one year, the British oil giant BP has taken steps back into the deep water oil exploration game from the Louisiana coast, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. From April 20, 2010, at Macondo blowout of the oil company is 11 employees slain on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon and resulted in the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Environmental groups urged the federal government to permanently ban new offshore oil exploration and development, but such calls were blasted as naive by the oil industry and its supporters, who noted that 29% of domestic crude oil comes from the Gulf. (more…)
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Gulf fish hammered by BP Oil
Although the water in the habitat of the tested killifish is clean, the kind still suffering from the BP oil spill of 2010. Even minute quantities of crude oil, BP has taken a variety of ways fish in the Gulf of Mexico – even if oil in the water were nondetectable. According to a paper in the beginning to see in PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The problems came as genetic responses in liver tissue, and if abnormal protein expression in gill tissue – and they lived in fish, even after their surroundings looked and tested clean. (more…)