On April 20, 2010, the oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, operating in the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and sank resulting in the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon and the largest spill of oil in the history of marine oil drilling operations. 4 million barrels of oil flowed from the damaged Macondo well over …
What's typically a beautiful, quiet stretch of beach in the fall now resembles a construction site. Bulldozers and yellow dump trucks shake the ground; a giant sifting machine spits clean sand o...
Updated at 3:55 p.m. ET. Three years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP announced Monday that the U.S. Coast Guard is ending its clean-up effort along the shorelines ...
Now BP is proposing to aggressively clean up beaches in a process it calls "deep cleaning." Utsler said deep cleaning could involve cleaning beaches to a depth of up to about 5 feet. [BP's Mike] Utsler said ecological concerns have forced BP in many places to limit cleanup to beach surfaces. He said beaches in Alabama were cleaned to …
What's typically a beautiful, quiet stretch of beach in the fall now resembles a construction site. Bulldozers and yellow dump trucks shake the ground; a giant sifting machine spits clean sand out one end, tar balls out another.
Oil giant has launched its biggest push yet to deep-clean the tourist beaches that were coated with crude during the worst of the Gulf oil spill. Video Advertise
What's typically a beautiful, quiet stretch of beach in the fall now resembles a construction site. Bulldozers and yellow dump trucks shake the ground; a giant sifting …
BP and federal and state Natural Resource Damages (NRD) Trustees have reached agreement in principle on two additional proposed early restoration projects in …
British oil company BP said Thursday Nov. 15, 2012 it is in advanced talks with U.S. agencies about settling criminal and other claims from the Gulf of Mexico well blowout two years ago. ... Crews work to clean up oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washed ashore at Pensacola Beach in Pensacola Fla. In a reversal, the Obama …
The oil washed ashore every day, globs of tarlike ooze blighting sugar-white sand beaches. Rodney Boblitt's job was to report it. A special agent for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, he was assigned to patrol 14 miles of Panhandle beaches on an all-terrain vehicle, alerting cleanup crews to new slicks from the BP …
NEW ORLEANS — Laboratory tests show that globs of oil found on two Louisiana beaches after Hurricane Isaac came from the 2010 BP spill. Tests run by Louisiana State University for state wildl…
BP's statement shows the London-based oil giant's continued challenge in managing the aftermath of the April 20, 2010, explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig as it was drilling the mile (1.6 ...
On April 20, 2010, a British Petroleum (BP) offshore oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers on the rig and spilling tens of thousands of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. BP's Deepwater Horizon oil well, located 5,000 feet below the ocean's surface, leaked 5 million barrels (205.8 million gallons) of crude oil into Gulf Coast, with …
BP has asked for permission to dig deep into beaches and remove oil buried after Gulf oil spill BP PLC
BP deep-cleaning Gulf beaches amid new worries November 18 2010, By JAY REEVES, Associated Press ... Louisiana, the company says. BP spokesman Ray Melick says the major work should be done by mid-
Louisiana is getting another $205 million in BP oil spill money to restore its coast. $176 million will go toward using sediment dredged from the Mississippi River to …
Updated 1:30 p.m. ET (CBS/AP) NEW ORLEANS - Laboratory tests show that globs of oil found on two Louisiana beaches after Hurricane Isaac came from the 2010 BP spill.
When large storms whip up and strip off layers of beach sand, huge mats of fresh oil can be found. More than 200 miles of Louisiana shoreline continues to display some degree of oiling, according to a February 2014 report by Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration authority.
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Long-term benefits. In addition to generating affordable, clean energy for Louisiana's electrical grid, development of the land with home-grown solar energy has several additional long-term benefits, including: . Rest and regeneration of the land during the project's life, improving soil health and preserving it for future use.
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Two years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, mats of oily tar from BP Plc.'s ill-fated Macondo well have turned up on Louisiana's shore
Former boat captain John Maas poses for a portrait on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Thousands of people who helped clean up after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say ...
Kennon has given BP a deadline of New Year's Day to finish the deep-cleaning work on Orange Beach's nine miles of coast. "If they want me to sign off on it, it's going to have to be white and ...
September 12, 2012 — British oil giant BP said Tuesday it has asked the U.S. federal and local authorities for permission to do the "deep-cleaning" of buried oil exposed on Louisiana beaches by Hurricane Isaac's waves. BP Gulf Coast Restoration Organization President Mike Utsler said Tuesday that BP has asked permission from the U.S. Coast ...
Bulldozers and yellow dump trucks shake the ground; a giant sifting machine spits clean sand out one end, tar balls out another.
Back in 2012, BP agreed in the medical settlement to pay cleanup workers and coastal residents between $1,400 and $60,700 for specific conditions that BP …
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HOUSTON – The U.S. Coast Guard today ended patrols and operations on the final three shoreline miles in Louisiana, bringing to a close the extensive four-year …
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