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Keith Schmidt, spokesman for well owner Newfield Exploration Co.,
said a crew from Wild Well Control was able to install a temporary plug at
the well and all flow of fluids was stopped.
Lafourche president faces ethics charges for renting camp to BP
post-oil spill
Lafourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph will appear before the
Ethics Adjudicatory Board this spring regarding ethics charges against her.
Bayonne official says massive oil spill from barge isn’t a health
threat
More than 156,000 gallons of oil and water have been recovered
since a spill that dumped oil from a barge into the Kill Van Kull, allowing
it to wash up on the shores of Bayonne and Staten Island, according to
officials.
Oil spill threatens desalination plants
KUWAIT: A local environmental group issued a warning yesterday
about discovery of an oil spill recently along the country’s southern shores
which was moving towards water desalination plants and could raise
serious concerns about the state’s water security strategies.
Watchdogs: US Regulators Are Not Prepared to Prevent Arctic
Spill, Sue for Access to Info on Shell Oil Drilling Plan
Royal Dutch Shell plans to drill for oil this spring in the arctic
Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off the northern coasts of Alaska, but
watchdogs and environmentalists are not yet convinced that Shell and
federal regulators have taken enough steps to prevent or contain a
potential oil spill in the treacherous and icy waters.
Seattle mayor calls for city’s pension funds to dump oil stocks
Student groups at 192 colleges and universities are calling on their
schools’ endowments to sell off stocks in fossil-fuel companies, inspired
by a 350.org campaign that we’ve reported on before.
Shell’s Ursa makes waves in offshore industry
ABOARD THE URSA TENSION LEG PLATFORM: When the
Guinness Book of Records was looking for the tallest structure in the
world in 2009, it selected Shell’s Ursa platform, located about 130 miles
southeast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico.