Oil Disasters

Disasters Caused by Oil and Gas Drilling, Oil Spills, Leaks, Polluting Land, Water and Air

Most Recent BP Spills

• Sick of Oil Spills? Posted by feww on July 18, 2011
• FIRE halts BP oil production at Valhall platform, North Sea Posted by feww on July 15, 2011

 

Michigan [Enbridge, Inc.]

• More than 3 million liters (800,000 gallons) of oil leaked  from a pipeline operated by the Calgary-based Enbridge Inc in southern Michigan on July 26, 2010, a report said.  The crude oil  leaked into a creek feeding the Kalamazoo River, which flows into Lake Michigan.”
• See Also:

• Native Groups Nix Enbridge Pipeline
• [REPORTED] History of Enbridge pipeline Leaks in U.S.

Gulf of Mexico

• Halliburton used flawed cement on BP well: panel
• See also:
  • Haliburton tried to eliminate competition?
  • http://msrb.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/on-the-way-to-armageddon/

• BP spill left deep-water oil plume: scientists Thu Aug 19, 2010

• Scientists say up to 79 percent of the 4.1 million barrels of oil that gushed from the broken well and were not captured directly at the wellhead remained in the Gulf. Aug 17, 2010

• Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill – Latest Info Posted on August 17, 2010
• Killing the Fabric of Life on Earth Posted on July 30, 2010

• Court order halts Chukchi oil and gas activity [July 22, 2010]
• Oil spill found inside Alaska wildlife refuge

• Deadly Oil Continues to Gush in the Gulf – Satellite Images July 12, 2010
• Gulf Oil Disaster: Predictable and Preventable July 11, 2010
• Deepwater Drilling OK: Court of Appeals July 11, 2010

• Gulf Oil Disaster: BP Lied – Google Covered Up! Posted on July 8, 2010

• Gulf of Mexico Worth More Dead Than Alive: Oil Industry Posted  on June 22, 2010
• World’s Largest Oil Tailing Pond – Satellite Images Posted on June 21, 2010
• BP Hayward: Frankly, I Couldn’t Give a Damn! Posted on June 18, 2010
• Gulf Oil Disaster: “It’s a war” Posted on June 16, 2010
• Planet Oil Slick – Latest Satellite Images Posted on June 15, 2010

• Oil Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico – Satellite Images Posted on June 13, 2010
• The White House Action Comedy Posted  on June 12, 2010
• Oil Leak in Gulf of Mexico – New Estimate and Satellite Photo Posted on June 9, 2010
• Two People Killed in 3rd Gas Explosion in 2 Days Posted on June 9, 2010
• Texas Gas Pipeline Explosion Follows Explosion at W Va Gas Well

• Big Oil and “Homeland Security” Posted by msrb on June 8, 2010
• Resentment Brewing Among Gulf Coast Communities Posted on May 31, 2010
• UPDATE 3-BP-owned Alaska oil pipeline shut after spill May 26, 2010

• BP ‘Top Kill’ Dead Posted on May 30, 2010
• Gulf Oil Disaster – Image of the Day
• Human Illusions Turning Deadly
• Shutting Down Oil Wells After the Collapse
• Gulf Oil Disaster: Images of Despair

• Statoil Evacuates North Sea Platform Posted on May 21, 2010
• Gulf Oil Slick Dragon Tail Enters Loop Current Posted on May 20, 2010
• BP Oil Spill: Turtles Are Dying Posted on May 19, 2010
• BP Oil Leak: Mega Disaster Enters New Dimension Posted on May 19, 2010
• BP Leak Already Biggest Oil Disaster in U.S. History Posted on May 18, 2010

• Nightmare Plume and ‘Cozy Relationship’ Posted on May 16, 2010
• Gulf Oil Disaster Like Apollo 13 Explosion: BP CEO Posted on May 15, 2010
• Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster – Oil Leak Estimate Posted on May 15, 2010
• Gas Platform Sinks Offshore Venezuela Posted on May 13, 2010
• Gulf of Mexico: A Waiting DisasterPosted on May 13, 2010

• Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak – Latest Modis ImagePosted on May 12, 2010
• Pollution Kills, OK? Posted on May 11, 2010
• Gulf Oil Spill Disaster – Expecting Different Results Posted on May 11, 2010
• Texas Coast Attacked by Oil SpillPosted on May 10, 2010
• Gulf of Mexico: One Barrel Away from Collapse Posted on May 9, 2010

• 10 Worst Corporations Posted on May 11, 2010

• Gulf of Mexico: One Barrel Away from Ecological Death [MAY 9 UPDATE]
• Gulf of Mexico Oil Disaster: Satellite Photo – Update May 8
• GoM Oil Disaster – UPDATE May 7
• Gulf Oil Disaster: Why Obama Was Slighted
• Obama: A Serious Self-Hater

• BP Won’t Pay – Oil Spill Update May 5

• Why BP Didn’t Care – Oil Spill Update May 4
• NO New Offshore Drilling: Schwarzenegger Sees the Light May 4, 2010
• NO New Offshore Drilling: Schwarzenegger Sees the Light May 4, 2010
• Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak – Detailed Satellite Image Posted on May 4, 2010
• Oil Spill Attack on America – UPDATE May 3 Posted on May 3, 2010

• Breaking News: Oil Leak 25,000 Bpd Posted on May 2, 2010

• ‘I Hate BP, Bog Oil, Obama, US Lawmakers, Oil Lobby!’ Posted on May 2, 2010
• Just Before the Oil Attack … Posted by May 1, 2010
• Obama’s energy security falls around his ankles Posted on May 1, 2010

• Fire-Earth Forecasts 10 Major Oil Spills to End 2011 Posted on May 1, 2010
• Are things as bad as they look … Posted on May 1, 2010 *****

• Oil Spill: Drilling Ban Imposed in New Areas of US Coast April 30, 2010
• Gulf Oil Spill Reaches Mouth of Mississippi River Posted on April 30, 2010
• The Frustrated Polar Bear [Image of the Day 30 Apr]

• Gulf Oil Spill and Other News Headlines-Apr 30
• Oil Leak Off Louisiana MODIS Images – Apr 30

• New Oil Leak Compounds Gulf Disaster – Apr 29
• Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak – Update Apr 28
• Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak – Update Apr 27
• Rig Explosion Suit Cites Criminal Negligence by BP, Others

• Louisiana Coast Oil Leak Disaster Underway
• Gulf Sunken Rig: No Major Spill Yet—Reports
• Deepwater Horizon Still Burning – UPDATE
• Offshore Oil Rig Explodes

• NASA Satellite Images (disappointing, as usual, but meant as a record) – Apr 21
• Want a Mandate to Kill Life on the Planet?
• Obama: A Serious Self-Hater

Alaska, Australia and Others

• Shipping Disasters Update – May 6

• Peru tribes file complaint over oil company
• Want a Mandate to Kill Life on the Planet?
• Chevron-BP Pipeline leaks Oil into Louisiana Wildlife Refuge
• Australian Oil Leak Disaster – Update April 5

• Another Oil Leak Nightmare Made in Australia
• Oil Refinery Explodes in Washington State
• Obama: A Serious Self-Hater
• Yellow River Contaminated by Diesel Leak

• Alaska tug grounds, leaks diesel at Prince William Sound
• BP Leaks in Alaska, Again
• Kudos to Residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania
• French oil giant Total pleads guilty

• Big Oil Itching to Drill the Last Straw
• Australia Blazing Oil Rig May Collapse

• Australia Oil Well on Fire
• Australian ecological disaster
• Timor Sea Oil Slick: Growing Australian Disaster
• Major Ecological Disaster Underway in Timor Sea
• Australian Oil Disaster May Get a Lot Worse
• Australia Fails to Plug Oil Leak in Timor Sea
• How Much Oil Pollution Is Too Much?
• FEWW Earthquake Forecast: Timor Sea

Related News Links:

• Conoco to pay air quality fine to Pennsylvania
• The oil spill in Timor Sea grows daily
• Timor Sea oil spill costs $5.3m – so far
• First attempt to plug oil leak fails
• Second attempt to plug oil leak fails

• Expedition observes hundreds of marine creatures in oil slick
  http://wwf.org.au/news/expedition-observes-hundreds-of-marine-creatures-in-oil-slick/

• Australian oil spill ‘contaminating one of world’s richest marine wildernesses’
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/oct/23/australia-oil-spill?commentpage=1

Recent Oil Spills:

• Gulf of Mexico receives its regular ration of oil spill
• Oil Spills, Earthquakes and Faults

• Magnitude 6.8 EQ Strikes BANDA SEA
• Deadly Earthquake Strikes Java, Indonesia
• Exxon Pays Peanuts to the Monkeys

• 4m liters of crude spill into French nature reserve
• Old MacDonald Had a Fleet
• Shell Leaks in Shabby Style!
• Exxon Mobile Court Orders Only Fraction of Damages
• Another Day, Another Oil Spill in Alaska

• Chevron should pay $27 billion in compensation
• US Govt Sues BP America
• Australia hit by another man-made disaster
• Large spill at Canada’s oil sands terminal

• Massive Oil Spill in Italy Poisoning Major River