Tag: Deepwater Horizon

London-based oil major BP announced it expects to take a new post-tax charge of around $1.7 billion in its fourth quarter 2017 results, over 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill claims, which will lift total costs to around $65 billion, significantly higher than expected.

In a bid to reduce undue burden on energy industry, while maintaining safety and environmental protection, the US BSEE completed a comprehensive review of the Production Safety Systems regulations for the US oil and gas sector, introduced after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. 

Ophir Energy, in cooperation with its partners in the Fortuna FLNG project, decided to prioritise one of the alternative funding solutions, with an Asian bank funding up to $1.2bn, on similar commercial terms to those agreed earlier this year with the group of three Chinese banks.

ABS classification society announced that it has issued a managed pressure drilling notation to Seadrill’s West Capella ultra-deep water drillship, demonstrating system compliance with the ABS Guide for Classification and Certification of Managed Pressure Drilling Systems. 

Semi-submersible 'Maersk Deliverer' has secured a new contract by JX Nippon covering the drilling of one well in Southeast Asia, with an estimated duration of 30 days, marking the continuation of Maersk Drilling's operations in the region. 

A new report has found that Deepwater Horizon cleanup workers exposed to Corexit dispersant, during the nearly three months oil spilled into the sea, were more likely to experience coughs, wheezing, chest tightness and eye, nose, throat and lung irritation than those who weren’t.

French energy company Total announced that its subsidiary, Total E&P USA, has entered into an agreement to capture 7 prospects operated by Chevron in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The agreement covers 16 blocks.

Boreholes in the North Sea could constitute a significantly more important source of methane, than previously thought, according to a new study which uses the example of the explosion of Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico, in April 2010.

Under the Coastal Voices program, Oceana traveled to Louisiana, to examine the effects of the oil and gas industry on the Gulf’s coastal residents and marine environment. Oil refineries in the region are mere blocks from homes, and chronic oil spills and leaks mar the water flowing through coastal areas.

Researchers at US Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have identified all of the principal oil-degrading bacteria, as well as their mechanisms for chewing up the many different components that make up the released crude oil, at Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. The study brought a newly discovered bacterium, responsible for oil-degrading.