A natural gas well located approximately 50 miles east of Venice in the Gulf of Mexico is releasing gas uncontrolled and has been evacuated, according to a report today in Fuel Fix, an energy news website operated in part by the Houston Chronicle. The site reports 15 workers were evacuated from the Ensco 87 rig, which sits in 218 feet of water, after tests found natural gas had migrated from [...]
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by WashingtonsBlog BP Continues to Hide Potential Oil Leak from Seafloor In response to the outcry about new oil leaking from BP’s Gulf macondo field, BP sent a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) down to the seafloor to investigate the source of the new oil sheen. BP claims that it found and stopped the source of the oil: a leaking “stovepipe” and side area of the “cofferdam“:
We asked Dr. Ira Leifer – a University of California [...] Environment Pollution in USA on Monday, 15 October, 2012 at 03:19 (03:19 AM) UTC. Back Updated: Tuesday, 16 October, 2012 at 03:31 UTC Nearly 50 miles from Iran sails the nuclear-powered USS Eisenhower — never before has the U.S. flexed so much muscle so close to the Muslim nation. The move is a blunt warning to Iran: Don’t follow through on a threat to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth of the world’s oil passes. If Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear sites, Iran has promised to fill the strait’s waters with boats packed with explosives and mine [...] A “new frontier” in mining is set to be opened up by the underwater extraction of resources from the seabed off the coast of Papua New Guinea, despite vehement objections from environmentalists and local activists. Canadian firm Nautilus Minerals has been granted a 20-year licence by the PNG government to commence the Solwara 1 project, the world’s first commercial deep sea mining operation. Nautilus will mine an area 1.6km beneath the Bismarck Sea, 50km off the coast [...] en.rian.ru The General Staff of Turkey’s Armed Forces on Friday backed down from its previous claim that its fighter jet was downed last month by Syrian forces. “The actual cause of the incident will be established after the plane wreckage is raised from the seabed,” the General Staff said in a statement. “No traces of explosives or flammable products were found on the debris recovered from the sea.” Read more Object is raised about 10 to 13ft above seabed and curved at the sides like a mushroom Area vital to German war machine Sonar scans have [...] Object is raised about 10 to 13ft above seabed and curved at the sides like a mushroom The divers exploring a ‘UFO-shaped’ object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea say their equipment stops working when [...] Object is raised about 10 to 13ft above seabed and curved at the sides like a mushroom Hole is surrounded by an strange rock formation that expedition team can not explain Sceptics expected that a deep-water dive would debunk the slew of extra-terrestrial theories surrounding an unidentified [...] 2012-06-07 BREAKING NEWS 2pm, The divers are now down and investigating the circle and reports from the ship say they are really amazed. There is definitely something unusual hiding at the seabed – a Mystery Beneath. More information and pictures will be released next week.
2012-06-06 1.00 pm, Ocean X Team on site They haven’t eaten for an incredible 86 million years – so you’d think they would be quite peckish. But apparently not, because the hardy bacteria scientists found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean can live without food, almost. The deep-sea life forms were discovered when researchers drilled into a layer of soft red clay at the bottom of the Pacific Gyre. It is an area of ocean where almost nothing reaches the [...] Iran subs poised to torpedo US warships in Gulf (AFP Photo / Jamejamonline / Ebrahim Noroozi) An Iranian commander has warned that Tehran is on full alert in case of enemy threats, and has the best submarines in the world ready to “ambush and hit enemy vessels, especially US Aircraft carriers, from the seabed throughout the Persian Gulf.” Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army’s Self-Sufficiency Jihad Rear Admiral Farhad Amiri hailed [...] Vast methane ‘plumes’ seen in Arctic ocean as sea ice retreats Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region. The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed [...] |
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