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A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash explores key historical events, data and predictions regarding the global peak in petroleum production through interviews with petroleum geologists, former OPEC officials, energy analysts, politicians, and political analysts. The film contains contemporary footage interspersed with news and commercial footage ...
With oil now spewing into the ocean, an oil-covered pelican flies into the bridge of a nearby vessel, the Damon Bankston, which was there to collect the drilling mud from the well, and dies; the vessel heads towards the rig just as the workers begin a frantic evacuation, sending out a rescue team after seeing the rig burst into flames. Harrell ...
2014 Crude (2007) Petroleum industry: peak oil and climate change: Richard Smith: 2007 Crude (2009) Petroleum industry: pollution and class action: Joe Berlinger: 2009 A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash: Peak oil, Petroleum industry: Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack 2006 Dark Waters: Water Pollution: Chemical Industry, Class Action
Michael Craig Ruppert (February 3, 1951 – April 13, 2014) was an American writer and musician, Los Angeles Police Department officer, investigative journalist, political activist, and peak oil awareness advocate known for his 2004 book Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil.
The rig owner, Transocean, had a "strong overall" safety record with no major incidents for 7 years. [15] However a Wall Street Journal analysis "painted a more equivocal picture" with Transocean rigs being disproportionately responsible for safety related incidents in the Gulf and industry surveys reporting concerns over falling quality and performance.
BP (BP) commissioned a feature-length film about the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. The movie, produced by World Television, will act as a historical "archive," BP spokesman Robert Wine told The New ...
One thing, however, has become clear: as oil prices in the past three months made some of their biggest gyrations in history, taking action will prove a severe, if not impossible, test for OPEC+ ...
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. [8]