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Oil Slicks in Gulf of Mexico
/in Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosAnother day, another spill in the Gulf. Or two. Yesterday’s MODIS/Aqua satellite image shows a couple of small slicks in the Main Pass area, a region jam-packed with offshore oil and gas platforms and pipelines. The two slicks we’ve outlined in yellow below appear to be closely associated with two recent National Response Center oil […]
Oil Slick at Platform 23051 Site, Gulf of Mexico
/in Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosIt’s the Energizer Bunny of leaks: yesterday’s MODIS/Terra satellite image of the Gulf shows a 10-mile-long oil slick emanating from the site of Taylor Energy’s destroyed platform, where wells damaged by hurricane Ivan in 2004 have been leaking oil ever since: We’ve now collected dozens of satellite images and air photos showing a persistent oil […]
Marcellus Shale Drilling and Chesapeake Bay Water Quality
/in Hydraulic Fracturing, Oil & Gas /by John AmosFollowing up on Ben’s post Tuesday – onshore oil and natural gas drilling can impact water in different ways: 1) Water withdrawals – drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) require large quantities of water. The high-volume slickwater fracking performed on Marcellus Shale gas wells can use up to 3 million gallons of water per frack. It’s […]
Oil Slick Near Venice, Louisiana – Federal Officials Stumped?
/in Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosWe hope not, since we’ve provided plain-as-day photos of a leaking platform not far from where the slick off Venice, Louisiana was first reported. Maybe the Venice slick had another as-yet unidentified source, but the slick encountered by our Gulf Monitoring Consortium partners from a well likely owned by Saratoga Resources, Inc. clearly indicates a […]
Oil Slick Near Venice, Louisiana – Who Owns the Well?
/2 Comments/in Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosThanks to reader bdstroid for commenting on yesterday’s post that Lobo Operating, Inc. of Covington, LA is, well, no longer operating. So the question is – who owns the well that is apparently leaking in the June 10 photographs taken by Gulf Restoration Network? Some updated findings: Using the Louisiana state data site, SONRIS, we’ve […]
Marcellus Shale Hydrofracking Surface Water Impacts
/2 Comments/in Biodiversity, Climate, Freshwater, Hydraulic Fracturing, Internship /by Ben PeltoHi guys, I’m Ben Pelto and I am interning with SkyTruth this summer. I am working on our surface water impacts of Marcellus Shale drilling project. Below is a map of Pennsylvania with all of the permits and spuds (where drilling has started) for 2011 only. That is one heck of a lot of action […]