Sentences with phrase «deepwater oil disaster»
This includes programs for maneuvering robotic subs (as with the efforts to contain BP's Deepwater oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico) or sophisticated mapping tools for emergency - response crews using mobile devices to assess earthquake damage (as in Haiti).
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«The Deepwater Horizon disaster has also focused attention on the oil sands» 170 - billion [barrels] of economically recoverable reserves,» said Peter Buchanan and Meny Grauman.
I'm down on the Gulf coast again, my third trip since the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster began on April 20.
A study published Aug. 28, 2017, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds a new dimension to the controversial decision to inject large amounts of chemical dispersants immediately above the crippled oil well at the seafloor during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.
The findings also could help inform the ongoing public debate about the economic impacts of human - made environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how much polluters should have to pay in reparation.
Dispersed oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster could be more dangerous to wildlife than reports suggest.
On this week's show: Five years of science following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
The devices are about 10 times thinner than a human hair, so presumably you would need epic fleets of them to make a difference in massive oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
He said that water samples from the Gulf of Mexico are showing signs that marine bacteria are already pitching in to help with clean - up efforts, and that populations of these bacteria in this area are likely to boom as they feast on the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, with much of it entering the deep ocean.
The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010, marked the beginning of the worst oil disaster in American history.
In fact, the current research project is based, in part, on the experience of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, during which more than 400 controlled burns removed between 220,000 and 310,000 barrels of oil from the ocean's surface.
BP and federal officials are employing a variety of clean - up techniques to limit the environmental impact of the massive oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill proved, allowing drilling technology to outpace the development of sound safeguards is courting disaster.
A truth that floated to the surface during the BP energy company's Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, along with hundreds of millions of liters of oil, is that the world does not have a ready replacement for conventional forms of fuel such as crude oil and likely will not have one for some time, particularly as demand for energy grows worldwide.
Mexico is taking advantage of the fallout from the disaster next door — and the suspension of cross-border prospecting — to buy time for its national oil company, Pemex, which plans to beef up its own deepwater capabilities.
The Deepwater Horizon disaster has been called the 9/11 of the oil business, the event that changes everything in the industry.
The Obama administration has issued new rules governing offshore drilling, six years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster killed 11 rig workers and spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Texas OneGulf was established in January 2015 as a Texas Center of Excellence after the Deepwater Horizon disaster to advance research into ongoing impacts from the oil spill and other long - term issues that threaten the health and sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico.
Oil spills are serious environmental hazards, as the Deepwater Horizon disaster demonstrated back in 2010.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has now cost BP $ 1.25 bn (# 870m), as its much - criticised chief executive vows to spend «what it takes» to fix the Deepwater Horizon disaster that has caused growing anger across America.
Based on true events, Deepwater Horizon details the circumstances surrounding the 2010 disaster that befell the title oil rig - with the movie following the various men and women who were working aboard the massive installation when it exploded.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, and an ecological disaster.
Film Review by Kam Williams Spectacular Disaster Flick Depicts Real - Life Events Surrounding BP Oil Spill On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded when high - pressure methane gas blew out the drill pipe.
Tim Burton's latest fantastical oddity, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, earned a hefty $ 28.5 m at the US box office in its first weekend on release, but Peter Berg's acclaimed disaster movie Deepwater Horizon, about the 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, failed to attract an audience.
Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.
Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell star in the action thriller Deepwater Horizon (2016, PG - 13), about the workers trying to survive the oil rig disaster.
Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg have carved out a niche as re-constructors of real - life disasters, from a Navy Seal op in 2014's Lone Survivor to the BP oil spill in last year's Deepwater Horizon.
Directed by Peter Berg, the film is a dramatization of the 2010 disaster in which the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon explodes, thus creating the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
An award winning filmmaker, her most recent project is an interactive web documentary OFFSHORE that looks at the dark side of offshore oil exploitation in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
The Niger Delta is the world capital of oil pollution, the Deepwater Horizon disaster is not a disaster at all compared to this part of the world, more a minor incident.
On the eve of Senate hearings examining the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon rig and the unabated release of oil from the damaged seafloor well, President Obama ordered a team of government officials and scientists led by Energy Secretary Steven Chu to head to Houston this week to confer with BP's brain trust on next steps to stem the unfolding environmental disaster.
Given that President Obama and other members of his administration have continued to express support for offshore drilling, provided that additional safeguards are put in place to prevent a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, once the gushing oil is stopped there remains a possibility of expanding offshore drilling once again.
If he is wise, Cuomo will shake up the leadership of his minerals division now, so he doesn't face a situation like the one confronting President Obama after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico prompted an after - the - fact reorganization of the federal Minerals (Mis) Managament Service.
OTTAWA — A renowned Canadian scientist says there appear to be similarities between fish deformities found downstream from Alberta's oilsands and those observed after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and Florida's Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Brad Johnson, then writing for Think Progress, explained that Witt O'Brien's PIER Systems was «being used by Unified Command for media and public information management» during the Deepwater Horizon spill in an article titled, «BP's Secret Army Of Oil Disaster Contractors.»
From Exxon Valdez to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, oil companies have proven they are willing to endanger everyone and everything living in and near the ocean, as long as they profit.
Crew members from U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Harry Claiborne operate an oil skimmer collecting oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.
Cleanup crew vessels stand in oil - slicked water 30 days after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf Of Mexico on June 9, 2010.
BP used two kinds of toxic chemical dispersants to sink the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527, manufactured by Nalco Environmental Solutions.
One lesson of the Gulf oil spill that is an ominous warning about climate change is that the Deepwater Horizon disaster demonstrates that what are often initially believed to be low probability, in fact unforeseeable, catastrophic impacts do happen.
He voted to support more dangerous drilling off our beaches, threatening our economy and making disasters like the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill more likely.
Oil leasing and drilling has picked up again in the Gulf of Mexico, following a hiatus after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout disaster in 20Oil leasing and drilling has picked up again in the Gulf of Mexico, following a hiatus after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout disaster in 20oil blowout disaster in 2010.
Offshore rules softening: The Trump administration is moving to relax some offshore drilling requirements imposed in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster but is rebuffing the oil industry's plea for bigger changes.
In May 2010, as oil continued to gush into the Gulf from BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, President Obama canceled a pending lease sale that would have opened Virginia's coastline to the dangers of offshore oil drilling.
In Congress, I will fight to protect our oceans and the wildlife they support from pollution, human - caused disasters like the BP / Deepwater Horizon oil spill, overfishing, and other potential threats.
Failure of blowout preventers to halt a sudden rush of oil and gas has been cited as one of the chief contributors to the April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster.
As the Deepwater Horizon disaster unfolded two years ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used information from satellite data and helicopter flights over the Gulf to produce aerial images of the shifting coat of oil.
As a comparison, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster released approximately 1 million tons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
The people of the Gulf Coast, the oil industry, and the environment dodged a bullet, because the woefully inadequate, even counterproductive cleanup measures that were in place during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster have not been improved since that catastrophe killed eleven rig workers and ravaged human health and the environment throughout the region.