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Federal Safety Rules Released For Offshore Drilling
by Dennis M. McElwee on August 20, 2012
A final set of federal safety regulations were issued last week for offshore drilling. The rules are a fine-tuning of the emergency measures enacted after the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill. The rules deal with how wells are designed and the testing of the cement and barriers that are used to secure them. The go...
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Barge Crash Stalls Shipping Traffic On Mississippi
by Matthew D. Shaffer on January 23, 2013
Commercial shipping came to a standstill on the Mississippi River on Tuesday after a barge struck an auxiliary lock’s gate near Granite City, Ill. The barge jam, at one of the river’s busiest points, could last into the week, the Army Corps of Engineers said. Corps crews were determining how the damaged auxiliary lock would be fixed, and a spok...
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Unexploded Munitions In Gulf Pose Threat To Offshore Drilling
by Matthew D. Shaffer on October 01, 2012
Millions of pounds of unexploded bombs deposited in the Gulf of Mexico after World War II are posing a threat to offshore drilling, Texas oceanographers say. The United States and other governments disposed of munitions and chemical weapons in the oceans until the practice was banned by federal law and international treaties in the 1970s. Now, ...
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Sandy Point Crewmembers Bodies Recovered After Maritime Accident
by Stacey E. Burke on May 23, 2011
Independent salvage divers have been working for days to recover the remains of the three missing crewmembers of Omega Protein’s Sandy Point commercial fishing vessel. Media reports this morning indicate that the bodies of 48 year-old Rhoderick Watkins of Moss Point, 65-year old Thomas L. Moore of Havelock, North Carolina, and 58 year-old Lind...
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BP Exec Defends Gulf Oil Spill Report
by Dennis M. McElwee on March 04, 2013
A British Petroleum executive is defending a report on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion in federal court in New Orleans today. Mark Bly was in charge of the company’s investigation into the explosion that killed 11 people and sent millions of gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. It’s the fourth day of testimony. The civil trial ...
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Trial Against BP, Transocean In Deepwater Horizon Disaster Set To Begin Today
by Matthew D. Shaffer on February 25, 2013
The trial over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill is set to begin this morning in New Orleans before a federal judge, with no jury. Attempts to reach a settlement over the weekend failed, but legal experts expect that one will be reached, at least with the U.S. Department of Justice, within the next few months. Eleven men were ...
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Body of Maritime Cook Lindsey Tucker Recovered from Sunken Sandy Point Fishing Vessel
by Matthew D. Shaffer on May 22, 2011
Salvage divers have been searching the waters for answers after the Gulf of Mexico vessel collision last week. It has now been confirmed that on Saturday, the divers located the body of Lindsey A. Tucker, the cook aboard the commercial fishing vessel Sandy Point. The body was found in the cabin of the sunken pogy boat. The two other crew m...
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Judge OKs BP Class Action Lawsuit Settlement
by Matthew D. Shaffer on December 27, 2012
Last Friday, a U.S. judge gave the final approval to BP’s settlement with individuals and businesses who lost money and property as a result of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that followed the Deepwater Horizon explosion. The settlement addressed only issues of economic and property damage claims and did not separate medical benefits s...
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