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Doug Suttles in letter dated June 9 but publicized June 12 outlines new plans to increase capacity including addition of the Discoverer Clear Leader which will process 5-10,000 barrels of oil a day using the Kill Line on the blow out preventer through the manifold used in the Top Kill operation. Oil will be stored and offloaded and gas will be ...
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill approaches the coast of Mobile, Alabama, 6 May 2010 Oil-stained beaches in Pensacola, Florida; 1 July 2010 Burning and skimming operations in the Gulf of Mexico; 10 June 2010 Thick oil washes ashore in Louisiana; 10 June 2010. The oil leak was discovered on the afternoon of 22 April 2010 when a large oil ...
June 23 – Oil appeared on Pensacola Beach and in Gulf Islands National Seashore, and officials warned against swimming for 33 miles (53 km) east of the Alabama line. [98] [99] June 25 – Hurricane Alex (2010) causes relief rigs to disconnect and let the oil spill unchecked into the ocean. [100]
In June 2010, Steve Goodie, [121] a comedy musician, wrote parody lyrics to The Doobie Brothers' hit song "Black Water" related to the BP oil spill. "Black Water [BP Version]" also had a YouTube video [ 122 ] and was a Top Ten hit on The Dr. Demento radio show .
Jebel al-Zayt oil spill Egypt, Red Sea: 16 June 2010 – 23 June 2010 unknown unknown [157] Red Butte Creek oil spill United States, Salt Lake City, Utah: 11 June 2010 – 12 June 2010 65: 107 [158] [159] Trans-Alaska Pipeline United States, Anchorage, Alaska: 25 May 2010: 400: 1,200 [160] MT Bunga Kelana 3 Singapore, Singapore Strait: 25 May ...
Markus Huettel, a benthic ecologist at FSU who has been studying the spill since 2010, maintains that while much of BP's oil was degraded or evaporated, as least 60% remains unaccounted for. Huettel cautions that only one category from NOAA's "oil budget", the 17% directly recovered from the wellhead, is actually known.
The White House blocked government scientists' efforts to disclose the worst-case environmental scenario related to the April 20 explosion of BP's (BP) Deepwater Horizon rig, the Associated Press ...
The oil slick as seen from space by NASA's Terra satellite on 24 May 2010. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been described as the worst environmental disaster in the United States, releasing about 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gal; 780,000 m 3) of crude oil making it the largest marine oil spill in history.