Brooklyn, New York (Motherboard.tv) -- In April of last year the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 men, injuring 17 others and triggering what is generally recognized as one of the greatest human errors ever made and officially the largest unforeseen marine oil catastrophe since people started drilling for oil.
This Ocean forecasting system could generate crucial forecast information, such as ocean circulation, sea surface temperature, wave height, to serve the needs of a variety of human activities related to marine hazards mitigation, oil and gas exploration, fisheries, navigation, marine parks management and coastal recreational activities.
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It carried out an 18-month investigation into the price of petrol, diesel, heating oil and marine diesel.
Mr. JEFF SHORT (Research Chemist, National Marine Fishery Service): Oil spills are a lot more damaging than we thought.
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The group diversified into engineering contracts as well as projects in the oil and gas, marine and rail sectors under his tenure.
Today, there are established centers at marine mammal facilities to de-oil otters.
One would carry about 525, 000 barrels of oil daily to a new marine terminal in Kitimat.
There is more hope for offshore wind, which is technically trickier, since North Sea oil has left a legacy of marine-engineering expertise in Britain.
In 1979, the worlds's worst oil spillage occurred as a result of a marine blow-out beneath the drilling rig Ixtoc 1 in the Gulf of Mexico.
The debate on 21 October 2010 focused on the benefits it could bring to protecting the marine environment and was brought in following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
As you know, yesterday BP began a controlled burn designed to remove large quantities of oil from the open water in an effort to protect shoreline and marine and other wildlife.
Hoffman, in this interview earlier in the said that he is an avid scuba diver and has found that some of the most amazing marine ecosystems in the world have established themselves around the steel structures of offshore oil rigs.
Oil spills from container ships or offshore platforms are a frequent hazard to marine and coastal ecosystems and an expensive one to clean up.
Within 48 hours after President Obama issued the six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling, the George Soros-backed Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, contacted a large New Orleans company, Laborde Marine, which services the deep-water drilling market.
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But much of that dip appears to be the result of microbes using oxygen to dissolve oil underwater, and the decline is not enough to be fatal to marine life, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official Steve Murawski, the head the Joint Analysis Group studying the spill's impact.
It needs offshore oil and gas companies to get involved with skills and technology they can transfer into marine power.
Zach McCue of Clean Ocean Action, a coalition of more than 130 environmental organizations in New Jersey and New York, said the manufacture of thin-film plastic bags consumes millions of trees and barrels of oil, takes up space in landfills for a long time and is harmful to marine life, especially birds and sea turtles that ingest the bags, or pieces of bags, or get entangled in them.
Being land-based allows Pioneer to benefit from higher oil prices, but buffers them from the shutdowns and service interruptions that plague drillers on marine platforms.
Marine biologists on board the ship closely monitored the fish which were fed a sustainable diet of soy oil, soy meal and other sustainable proteins.
In terms of containment right now, the top cap is drawing oil and gas to the surface to -- from the LMR -- the lower marine riser cap to the Enterprise.
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At the same time, Global Marine has concentrated its fleet around rigs that can drill in more than 250 feet of water, as oil companies look farther and farther offshore for reserves in places like West Africa and Brazil.
Hamaydin says that the oil slick has hit more than 40 percent of Lebanon's beaches, affecting a fragile ecosystem and marine life.
Early findings from a mid-August survey led by the University of South Florida indicated oil had settled to the bottom of the Gulf further east than previously suspected and at levels toxic to marine life.
"The dispersant is moving the oil down out of the surface and into the deeper waters, where it can affect phytoplankton and other marine life, " said John Paul, a marine microbiologist at the University of South Florida.
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