Offshore Oil Drilling

http://blogs.wvgazette.com/watchdog/2012/01/27/word-play-gas-industry-protests-use-of-f-word-but-its-pr-machine-takes-advantage-of-focus-on-fracking/ January 27, 2012 by Ken Ward Jr. In this Jan. 23, 2012 file photo, Gillie Waddington of Enfield, N.Y., raises a fist during rally against hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. President Barack ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2105598,00.html?xid=gonewsedit By TIM PADGETT / MIAMI Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 A Chinese-built drilling rig, known as Scarabeo 9, is seen off the coast of Havana, January 21, 2012. Desmond Boylan / Reuters On Christmas Eve, a massive, Chinese-made maritime oil rig, the Scarabeo 9, arrived at Trinidad and Tobago for inspection. The Spanish oil company ...Click Here to Read More.

By Virginia Chamlee | 01.27.12 | 4:52 pm The U.S. Department of the Interior announced yesterday morning that it will begin selling leases to allow offshore oil drilling in 38 million acres in the central Gulf of Mexico. Environmental groups say the move is troubling, as regulatory oversight and environmental problems related to the catastrophic 2010 gulf oil spill haven’t yet been fully ...Click Here to Read More.

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/206407-obamas-offshore-drilling-pledge-re-states-existing-plan By Ben Geman – 01/25/12 08:54 AM ET President Obama’s State of the Union speech endorsed expanded offshore oil-and-gas drilling but didn’t alter existing administration plans that energy companies and Republicans complain are too narrow. Obama, in his speech, called for ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120125/ARTICLES/120129672 Richard Charter has spent nearly three decades working to protect the Sonoma County coastline and beyond from interests such as offshore oil and gas drilling. (The Press Democrat/ Christopher Chung, 2005)) By GUY KOVNER THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Published: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 4:14 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, January 25, ...Click Here to Read More.

Posted by Brad Plumer at 12:38 PM ET, 01/23/2012 The U.S. Energy Information Administration just released its Annual Energy Outlook 2012 report, and three things stick out: The United States is dramatically curbing its oil imports, carbon emissions are flatlining and we have less shale gas than once thought. Here’s a rundown: 1) The United States is reducing its dependence on foreign oil. ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2012/01/shell_oil_president_says_pace.html Times-Picayune/Nola.com Shell Oil President says pace of federal permitting is improving Published: Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 5:33 PM Updated: Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 5:36 PM By Richard Thompson, The Times-Picayune Shell Oil president Marvin Odum said Wednesday that he believes the pace of federal ...Click Here to Read More.

Gulf of Mexico, Outer Continental Shelf, Central Planning Area; Oil and Gas Lease Sale, etc., 2991-2992 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-01-20/pdf/2012-1124.pdf http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-01-20/html/2012-1124.htm Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

Emily Yehle, E&E reporter Published: Monday, January 23, 2012 A scientist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration falsified findings to lowball the amount of oil that leaked in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, according to a scientific integrity complaint filed today. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is already pursuing a lawsuit against the ...Click Here to Read More.

SHAWN MCCARTHY Jan. 21, 2012 9:34AM EST It was the 2009 annual summer retreat of the Green Group – the chief executives, presidents and executive directors of the largest environmental organizations in the United States – and their Canadian counterparts had wrangled an invitation for the first time. The U.S. environmental movement appeared to be on a roll, with a new ally in the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=60134 January 20, 2012 | Fernando Ravsberg The fabrication of the platform is not the only assistance from Beijing. Chinese specialists have been working for years in Cuba on the extraction of oil. Photo: Raquel Perez HAVANA TIMES, Jan 20 – A Chinese-built offshore oil drilling platform has arrived in Cuban waters and can be seen from the Havana seawall. It ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/cuba-set-to-explore-offshore-as-oil-rig-arrives/1211509 Associated Press In Print: Friday, January 20, 2012 HAVANA – A huge drilling rig arrived Thursday in the gulf waters north of Havana, where it will sink an exploratory well deep into the seabed, launching Cuba’s dreams of striking it rich with offshore oil. The Scarabeo-9 platform was visible ...Click Here to Read More.

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/204621-obamas-jobs-council-calls-for-expanded-drilling By Andrew Restuccia – 01/17/12 03:43 PM ET President Obama’s jobs council called Tuesday for an “all-in approach” to energy policy that includes expanded oil-and-gas drilling as well as expediting energy projects like pipelines. “[W]e should allow more access to oil, ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-administration-to-reject-keystone-pipeline/2012/01/18/gIQAPuPF8P_story.html By Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson, The Obama administration will announce this afternoon that it is rejecting a Canadian firm’s application for a permit to build and operate the Keystone XL pipeline, a massive project that would have stretched from ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2012/01/gulf_of_mexico_oil_spill_envir.html Published: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 10:45 PM Updated: Friday, January 13, 2012, 8:42 AM By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune BP’s chief environmental scientist assigned to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Thursday said the company, working with state and federal trustees, remains on ...Click Here to Read More.

Paul Voosen, E&E reporter Published: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 It’s the most tangible intangible disaster of the past decade. Following the undersea blowout of the Deepwater Horizon two years ago, a majority of the oil and gas escaping from the rig’s out-of- control well never surfaced. Instead, it flowed in a diffuse layer to the southwest, thousands of feet below sea level. ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/13/2587909/oil-rig-could-be-off-key-west.html Posted on Friday, 01.13.12 The Scarabeo 9 semi-submersible oil rig photographed in China after it was built in 2011. The moveable platform is expected to begin drilling exploratory wells off Cuba, and near Key West, in the coming weeks.(Photo courtesy of Keppel FELS) KEYSNET.COM BY DAVID ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/66077–chevron-offshore-rig-near-nigeria-s-oil-rich-delta-catches-fire-search-for-workers-ongoing By Yinka Ibukun, The Associated Press | January 16, 2012 LAGOS, Nigeria – An offshore rig exploring possible deep-water oil and gas fields off Nigeria’s coast for Chevron Corp. caught fire Monday, and the oil company said officials were ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/wildlife/usf-study-finds-more-sick-fish-in-oil-spill-area-than-rest-of-gulf-of/1210495 By Craig Pittman, Times Staff Writer In Print: Saturday, January 14, 2012 A USF survey of the Gulf of Mexico last summer found more sick fish in the area of the 2010 oil spill than in other areas. The dots show areas where fish with skin lesions were found. [Source: ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=122736&org=NSF&from=news Press Release 12-005 Scientists document how geology, biology worked together after oil disaster January 9, 2012 When scientist David Valentine and colleagues published results of a study in early 2011 reporting that bacterial blooms had consumed almost all the deepwater methane plumes after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9S5NL4G0.htm By PETER ORSI HAVANA A U.S. inspection of a Chinese-made oil rig due to begin drilling in waters off Cuba has determined that it meets international safety norms, the American government said Monday. A statement issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior said members of its Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the U.S. ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57352556/ohios-new-earthquakes-may-be-man-made/?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.0 January 4, 2012 By Michelle Miller (CBS News) Northeastern Ohio has been rattled by close to a dozen earthquakes since last spring. It’s not an area that is known for them. Now, CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports that an expert on quakes says he believes they may ...Click Here to Read More.

January 05, 2012, 11:28 PM EST By Alex Wayne and Katarzyna Klimasinska Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. should study whether hydraulic fracturing used to free natural gas from wells is a hazard to people or food sources, a top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The Environmental Protection Agency, which is preparing regulations to govern fracking with the ...Click Here to Read More.

The Florida Current A bill that would seem to encourage more seismic exploration and new oil drilling in state parks and forests to generate state revenue has been filed in the Florida Legislature. HB 695 would allow state land management agencies to enter into partnerships with businesses to produce oil and gas. The Cabinet, which oversees the use of state lands, must approve any such ...Click Here to Read More.

> > Proposed Western Planning Area Lease Sales 229, 233, 238, 246, and 248 and > Proposed Central Planning Area Lease Sales 227, 231, 235, 241, and 247 > > The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announces the availability of the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for 10 proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas lease sales in the Western ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/02 Published on Monday, January 2, 2012 by The Hill (Washington, DC) by Andrew Restuccia With President Obama’s decision on the Keystone XL pipeline looming, the White House and Republicans will spend the next several weeks trying to win the messaging war over the controversial project. The stakes are high for both sides. Obama risks backlash from ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.alternet.org/story/153475/why_is_the_fda_saying_it%27s_ok_to_eat_seafood_10%2C000_times_over_the_safe_limit_for_dangerous_carcinogens?page=entire My cynical selfs tells me we knew this all along. How can you slime the Gulf benthos with tons of toxic dispersant without contaminating the food chain? DV By Brad Jacobson FDA not only downplayed the risk of contamination, but ignored ...Click Here to Read More.

By Emma Reynolds Last updated at 9:04 AM on 29th December 2011 BP employees could be charged with attempting a cover-up over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, it emerged today. Several Houston-based engineers and at least one supervisor may have provided false information to regulators about the risks associated with the drilling, according to sources. The staff members could be charged early ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-herring-kill-20111228,0,4854111.story The fuel oil that discharged into San Francisco Bay from the cargo ship Cosco Busan devastated the herring population that feeds seabirds, whales and the bay’s last commercial fishery, study says. On Rodeo Beach in Marin County, cleanup crews collected oil that had spilled into San Francisco Bay after the cargo ship ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/water/coast-guard-plans-to-use-dispersants-if-cuban-drilling-produces-oil-spill/1207054 TampaBay.com By Craig Pittman, Times Staff Writer Posted: Dec 20, 2011 11:01 AM As Cuba prepares to begin allowing a Spanish company to drill for oil 12 miles north of Havana next year, U.S. Coast Guard officials say they have learned from the mistakes made during the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/18/us-russia-platform-accidents-idUSTRE7BH0B420111218 Are there any doubts as to why we are opposed to offshore oil and gas exploration? Let’s put our resources into solar and other renewables. Now. And forget the transcontinental pipeline that will result in refining and exporting oil to other countries in exchange for degrading the environment ...Click Here to Read More.

http://inhabitat.com/report-shows-18-5-mile-wide-cloud-of-air-pollution-rose-from-the-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill/ by Brit Liggett, 12/20/11 According to a study released today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the massive plume from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had an ...Click Here to Read More.

Published on Saturday, December 17, 2011 by CommonDreams.org Agencies are reporting that the Senate has passed legislation to extend the payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for two months. The legislation also included a provision requiring the White House to make a decision on the Keystone XL project in 60 days. “If President Obama allows a deal cut in oily, money-filled congressional ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-14/bp-oil-spill-shows-blowout-preventers-need-redesign-panel-says.html BP Oil Spill Shows Blowout Preventers Need Redesign, Panel Says By Jim Polson – Dec 14, 2011 7:00 AM PT Blowout preventers, which are supposed to seal off an oil well in an emergency, must be redesigned to prevent failures like the one last year at BP Plc’s Macondo well in ...Click Here to Read More.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203893404577098780998054576.html?mod=googlenews_wsj DECEMBER 14, 2011, 8:22 P.M. ET By MATTHEW COWLEY And JOHN LYONS SAO PAULO-A Brazilian federal prosecutor on Wednesday asked a judge to shut down all Chevron Corp. and Transocean Ltd. operations in Brazil in a lawsuit that seeks some 20 billion Brazilian reais ($11 billion) in damages from the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/16/2548990/bp-settles-with-maker-of-failed.html Miami Herald Posted on Friday, 12.16.11 BP settles with maker of failed blowout preventer ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Cameron International, the maker of the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer that failed to stop last year’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has agreed to pay $250 million ...Click Here to Read More.

CONTACT: Stacy Kika Kika.stacy@epa.gov 202-564-0906 202-564-4355 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 16, 2011 Sentence is the largest ever criminal fine in Louisiana for air pollution WASHINGTON – Pelican Refining Company LLC, was sentenced to pay $12 million for felony violations of the Clean Air Act and to obstruction of justice charges in federal court in Lafayette, La. announced Cynthia ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2011/12/moving_forward_on_repairs_to_s.html Times-Picayune Published: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 7:09 AM By Editorial page staff, The Times-Picayune The first projects covered by BP’s pledge to provide $1 billion for early restoration from the 2010 oil spill will include creating 104 acres of marsh, placing oyster cultch on six public seed beds ...Click Here to Read More.

There are questions about the safety of seafood in the Gulf following the BP oil disaster. Gary Tuchman reports. http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/21/video-is-gulf-seafood-unsafe-to-eat/ Share and Enjoy: ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-15/chevron-s-oil-spill-in-brazil-prompts-10-6-billion-lawsuit.html By Peter Millard and Adriana Brasileiro – Dec 15, 2011 12:00 AM ET This photo taken Nov. 18, 2011 and released by Rio de Janeiro’s government, shows an aerial view of a boat crossing an area of the oil spill in an offshore field operated by Chevron at the Bacia de Campos, in ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/12/12/1707129/cuba-shows-us-its-response-plans.html ERIKA BOLSTAD – MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Dec 12, 2011 WASHINGTON – As Cuba prepares to embark on a new round of exploratory offshore drilling, U.S. officials are slightly more enlightened about the island nation’s plans in the event of a catastrophic oil spill on the scale of last year’s ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/gulf-offshore-drilling-leases-challenge_n_1146254.html This is good news; to begin leasing again when the same drill is in place is insanity. Thank you Oceana, Defenders of Wildlife, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Biological Diversity. DV By ALAN SAYRE 12/13/11 04:04 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — The federal government will ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.pennenergy.com/index/petroleum/display/7602822871/articles/pennenergy/petroleum/exploration/2011/12/federal-panel_calls.html?cmpid=EnlDailyPetroDecember132011 December 12, 2011 A panel convened by the federal government has issued a call for the oil and natural gas industry to take place a greater emphasis on potential environmental damage when drilling, according to The Wall Street ...Click Here to Read More.

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/12/07/feds-charge-bp-with-new-oil-spill-violations/ Posted on December 7, 2011 at 9:37 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy | Mickal Vogt of Covington, La., uses a stick to place tar balls in a jar that washed up on the shore in Orange Beach, Ala., Saturday, June 12, 2010. Large amounts of the oil battered the Alabama coast, leaving deposits of the slick mess some 4-6 inches ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.catholic.org/green/story.php?id=43958 By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) 12/7/2011 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) Risk of offshore drilling in pre-salt reserves must be reevaluated. A growing offshore oil spill continues to threaten the delicate marine environment off the coast of Brazil. Despite the magnitude of the disaster, and its likelihood to upset the regional ecosystem, ...Click Here to Read More.

Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC December 6, 2011 U.S. Department of State and other government officials will participate in a preparedness and response seminar in Nassau, The Bahamas, December 7-9, hosted by the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Information and Training Center for the Wider Caribbean ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-09/cuba-oil-drilling-tests-u-s-on-protecting-florida-or-embargo.html December 09, 2011, 9:56 AM EST * By Katarzyna Klimasinska Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — Four U.S. inspectors armed with safety glasses and notebooks will set out on a mission next month to protect Florida’s beaches from a Cuban threat. They’ll rendezvous in Trinidad and ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/12/2543744/oil-drilling-off-cuba-prompts.html Posted on Monday, 12.12.11 Officials from Caribbean countries, including the U.S. and Cuba, met to discuss plans in case a disaster happens at an oil rig off Cuba’s coast. BY ERIKA BOLSTAD MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — As Cuba embarks on a new round of exploratory offshore drilling, U.S. officials ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/article/230989/4/Florida-Bill-Drill-in-Old-Wells 3:55 PM, Dec 13, 2011 Associated Press FORT MYERS, Fla. — A bill sponsored by a Naples state representative would give a tax break to companies that go back to drill in abandoned oil wells or drill new wells in fields that are more than 30 years old. Rep. Matt Hudson, R-Naples, said his bill seeks ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-bp-says-halliburton-destroyed-gulf-spill-evidence-20111206,0,3412921.story 6:36 a.m. CST, December 6, 2011 BP accused Halliburton Co. of destroying evidence that the oilfield services company did inadequate cement work on the Gulf of Mexico oil well that blew out last year, and asked a federal judge to punish Halliburton. The accusation, in a ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/fl-bahamas-oil-drilling-cuba-waters-20111204,0,2907728.story By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau December 4, 2011 WASHINGTON – Just as South Florida braces for oil drilling set to begin next month off the shores of Cuba, a Bahamian company is pressing to dig exploratory wells as early as next year less than 200 miles from the state’s ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/12/05/2532384/white-house-releases-report-on.html Posted on Monday, 12.05.11 BY CAIN BURDEAU ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — The Obama administration has released a report on how the Gulf Coast can be restored following the nation’s worst offshore oil spill after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana in April 2010. The ...Click Here to Read More.

Phil Taylor, E&E reporter Published: Friday, December 2, 2011 The Pew Charitable Trusts this weekend will launch a national advertising campaign highlighting the risks of oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean. The campaign, which will include 30-second television commercials and online ads, comes weeks before the Interior Department must complete its review of Royal Dutch Shell ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/oil-companies-powned-in-e_b_1123211.html Kevin Grandia, Online Director, Greenpeace USA Posted: 12/ 1/11 01:42 PM ET In true “Yes Men” style, environment campaigners duped representatives of major oil companies into attending a meeting about the harsh realities of offshore oil drilling, instead of their intended meeting with Greenland ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.stuarthsmith.com/breakthrough-in-the-macondo-mystery-bp-admits-to-new-activity-at-deepwater-horizon-site#comments This makes a lot of sense but is another new awful thing to contend with. The perils of offshore oil continue…. DV Finally, some answers. After months of trying to make the fresh oil surfacing at the Deepwater Horizon site a “nonissue,” BP has finally copped to ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=142726848 by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAO PAULO November 23, 2011, 04:54 pm ET SAO PAULO (AP) – Chevron was banned from drilling for oil in Brazil until an investigation into an offshore oil leak at one of the U.S.-based oil company’s well sites is completed, regulators said Wednesday. The board of Brazil’s National Petroleum ...Click Here to Read More.

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/11/19/major-oil-leak-at-o Published November 19, 2011 Fox News Latino A leak at an offshore Chevron drilling site off the coast of Brazil may have dumped around 110,000 gallons of oil into the Atlantic Ocean, Brazilian officials said Friday. Officials think between 8,400 to 13,800 gallons of oil leaked each day from Nov. 8 through Tuesday, Ibama said ...Click Here to Read More.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/oilandgas_nsps/?r=232012&id=30706-2107199-hwfng6x Tell the EPA How can it be that on some days, the air in rural Wyoming is smoggier than the worst days in Los Angeles? Oil and gas drilling in 30 states releases a slew of dangerous and toxic air pollution like smog-forming ozone, benzene and formaldehyde. Despite the serious respiratory and neurological ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.keysnet.com/2011/11/17/397400/legislation-aimed-at-discouraging.html Nelson introduces bill as rig set to arrive here soon By David Goodhue dgoodhue@keysreporter.com Posted – Thursday, November 17, 2011 04:53 PM EST Bill Nelson, Florida’s senior senator, and a Senate colleague from New Jersey introduced a bill last week that would hold foreign oil companies directly ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/11/17-3 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2011 11:34 AM CONTACT: Friends of The Earth, Kelly Trout, 202-222-0722, ktrout@foe.org Emilie Openchowski, 202-222-0723, eopenchowski@foe.org This is so egregeous that I have posted it here even tho it is not technically offshore oil–it is onshore oil—taking a bad turn. DV WASHINGTON ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/15/us-chevron-brazil-idUSTRE7AD1D420111115?type=GCA-GreenBusiness&feedType=RSS& 1:19pm EST (Reuters) – Chevron Corp. said on Tuesday that oil flow from an appraisal well drilled at its Frade field in Brazil appears to have ceased, the first sign of progress in efforts to contain an oil spill in the region. Monitoring by the company also ...Click Here to Read More.

sounds suspicious. DV http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/11/11/chevron-brazil-idINN1E7A91MQ20111111 Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:15am IST * Regulator says leak one km from Chevron’s Frade field * Company says leaking from seep, unrelated to production (Adds Chevron statement) Nov 10 (Reuters) – An oil leak near Chevron’s Frade field off Brazil’s coast, which had temporarily ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/56593–china-says-probe-finds-conocophillips-oil-spills-caused-by-negligence By Gillian Wong, The Associated Press | November 11, 2011 BEIJING, China – Chinese authorities said Friday that negligence by a ConocoPhillips subsidiary caused recent oil spills in Bohai Bay that have drawn intense criticism from marine authorities and ...Click Here to Read More.

Phil Taylor, E&E reporter Published: Thursday, November 10, 2011 The Interior Department today spelled out the final terms for its first lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico since the BP PLC Deepwater Horizon oil spill began a year and a half ago. As previously announced, the sale will nearly triple the minimum bids allowed for blocks in water depths of at least 1,300 feet. The move aims to ...Click Here to Read More.

Mike Soraghan, E&E reporter Published: Thursday, November 10, 2011 Federal offshore drilling regulators today formally recommended that drillers should heed the mistakes federal investigators found when investigating the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion. The newly created Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) today issued a “safety alert” to leaseholders ...Click Here to Read More.

http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/11/08/obama-administration-to-unveil-5-year-offshore-drilling-plan/ Posted on November 8, 2011 at 9:43 am by Jennifer A. Dlouhy The Obama administration is set today to unveil a plan for selling offshore drilling leases over the next five years that focuses on exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the Gulf of Mexico is an attractive ...Click Here to Read More.

Here’s the OCS fact sheet from DOI Followed by the press statement (per Richard Charter) The Proposed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012-2017 (Proposed Program) will advance safe and responsible domestic energy exploration and production by offering substantial acreage for lease in regions with known potential for oil and gas development. The Proposed ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-front-center-110711-20111104,0,3741117.story Orlando Sentinel November 7, 2011 Just one more good reason to end the Cuban embargo.……DV Florida’s former governor and senator, who co-chaired the National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, says a planned oil rig off the north coast of Cuba poses a risk to Florida. ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2011/nov/04/cuban-waters-test-oil-rig-florida-keys-US-monitor/ By ERIC STAATS Posted November 4, 2011 at 9 p.m. Spanish oil giant Repsol could begin drilling in late December or early January at a spot along the northern shore of Cuba about 90 miles from Key West. From there, the Gulf Stream could pick up any oil spill and carry it perilously close or even into ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056630/Fracking-DID-cause-earth-tremors-Blackpool–drilling-goes-on.html#ixzz1cepGj3zz By Oleg Vukmanovic LONDON | Wed Nov 2, 2011 1:58pm EDT (Reuters) – Shale gas exploration triggered small earthquakes near Blackpool in northwest England earlier this year, UK firm Cuadrilla Resources said, adding to concerns about the safety of a technology ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.chron.com/business/article/Lawmakers-with-Cuban-roots-blast-offshore-2249368.php I have to agree that drilling so close to Key West is madness. How did we get into this mess? Its time to end the embargo… DV By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY, WASHINGTON BUREAU Updated 07:45 p.m., Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Michael Bromwich, director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation ...Click Here to Read More.

Mike Soraghan, E&E reporter Published: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 Let’s hope that if it were up to the U.S. to determine whether we should drill for oil a few miles downstream from Key West, that the answer would be a resounding NO. DV Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey today stood up for American companies’ ability to drill for oil — off Cuba. Calling the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://bernews.com/2011/10/bermuda-oil-rig-cited-in-reef-disaster/ Bernews October 25, 2011 · Recent undersea pictures and video have shown that conditions in Indonesia’s Timor Sea have deteriorated at an alarming rate, largely caused by a catastrophic 2009 oil spill which occurred following an accident on an oil rig owned by a Bermuda company. Australian and Indonesian experts claimed ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.chron.com/business/article/BP-gets-OK-to-drill-new-deep-water-well-2238092.php By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY, WASHINGTON BUREAU Published 06:45 p.m., Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., right, accompanied by Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, to discuss the BP oil spill. (AP Photo/Harry ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2011/oct/26/eve-samples-rooneys-offshore-drilling-proposal/ By Eve Samples Posted October 26, 2011 at 7:05 p.m. It’s one of Martin County’s greatest political strengths. When it comes to matters of the environment, Republicans, Democrats and shades in between are known to raise a unified voice. We hear their chorus rise whenever toxic algae blooms on the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://channel6newsonline.com/2011/10/environment-group-says-indonesias-timo-sea-largely-destroyed-due-to-2009-montara-oil-spill/ Big surprise–corexit kills marinelife. When will it be banned everywhere? DV 20 OCTOBER 2011 BY: BNO NEWS KUPANG, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — Recent undersea pictures and video have shown that conditions in Indonesia’s Timor Sea have deteriorated at ...Click Here to Read More.

http://rotor.com/Publications/RotorNewssupregsup/tabid/177/newsid1237/74049/mid/1237/Default.aspx I would be SOOOO happy to see the oil companies pay their fair share by closing tax loopholes! DV Cuban Drilling Plans & the Repeal of Oil Subsidies Offshore drilling in Cuban waters, within 70 miles of the Florida Keys-which could begin later this year by Spanish company Repsol-took center ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/18/v-fullstory/2460190/us-admits-limits-in-monitoring.html BY ERIKA BOLSTAD MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON — As exploratory oil drilling is set to begin in December off the coast of Cuba, the U.S. government acknowledged Tuesday that because of chilly diplomatic relations it could have a limited ability to control the response to an oil spill there, let ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/havana_fit_over_cuba_oil_drilling_kXtn49UB9SjNODrYo90gDN Finally, a public announcement of concern by the Obama administration, although I know they have been working behind the scenes for a while on this issue……..DV By JOSH MARGOLIN Last Updated: 7:11 AM, October 17, 2011 Posted: 2:25 AM, October 17, 2011 EXCLUSIVE It’s a sure-fire ...Click Here to Read More.

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/10/will-exxon-have-pay-ongoing-valdez-damage -By Kate Sheppard| Thu Oct. 13, 2011 6:34 AM PDT It’s been more than 22 years since the Exxon Valdez dumped 10 million gallons of crude into Alaska’s Prince William Sound, but you don’t have to look very hard to find lingering impacts from the spill. You can actually still find oil on the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/rena-crisis/5791702/This-should-be-a-wake-up-call ROB STOCK AND LOIS CAIRNS Last updated 05:00 16/10/2011 IAIN MCGREGOR/Fairfax NZ SHIP OF FUELS: The Rena spill has killed more than 1000 birds already. As authorities struggle with the environmental devastation of the Rena oil leaks, the government is pushing ahead with plans to tout New Zealand’s ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/14/2454027/bahamas-oil-drilling-could-begin.html A year after the BP spill, drilling discussion on the rise By David Goodhue dgoodhue@keysreporter.com As state, local and federal officials brace for a major offshore drilling operation to begin between Cuba in Key West in December, another exploratory well may be drilled a year later in the Bahamas. The ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/us/us-cites-bp-and-contractors-for-deepwater-horizon-spill.html by JOHN M. BRODER Published: October 12, 2011 WASHINGTON — The Interior Department formally cited BP and its two chief contractors on Wednesday for numerous safety and environmental violations in the operation of the doomed Deepwater Horizon well. The citations, which could lead to millions of ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/bp-faces-fierce-backlash-from-green-groups-over-new-oil-well-2369714.html Campaigners warn that wildlife at Shetland site would be at ‘significant risk’ from any spill By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor Thursday, 13 October 2011 BP’s plan for a controversial deep-water oil well off Shetland should be halted by the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/cuba-oil-idUSN1E7930U020111012 * Delay the latest of many in long-awaited project Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:22pm EDT * Opponents fear oil will prop up Cuba communism * Project has raised environmental fears in Florida By Jeff Franks HAVANA, Oct 12 (Reuters) – The arrival of a Chinese-built drilling rig set to explore for oil in Cuban waters has been ...Click Here to Read More.

Published on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 by The Independent/UK Internal report warns of ecological disaster if new well bursts by Michael McCarthy BP is making contingency plans to fight the largest oil spill in history, as it prepares to drill more than 4,000 feet down in the Atlantic in wildlife-rich British waters off the Shetland Islands. Internal company documents seen by The Independent ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/us/gulf-shrimp-are-scarce-this-season.html October 10, 2011 By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON LAFITTE, La. – The dock at Bundy’s Seafood is quiet, the trucks are empty and a crew a fraction of the normal size sits around a table waiting for something to do. But the most telling indicator that something is wrong is the smell. It smells perfectly ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-deibert/florida-oil-drilling-_b_990183.html by Michael Deibert Posted: 10/4/11 12:44 PM ET The news that the Spanish oil giant, Repsol, intends to begin exploratory drilling in the waters directly north of Cuba, has set off a chorus of criticism in Cuba’s neighbor to the north: the United States. Repsol, which has a presence in more than 35 ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/10/presidential_gulf_coast_task_f.html I’m glad to see this process moving along. The reduction in nutrient run-off is an excellent strategy for improving Gulf water quality. DV Published: Wednesday, October 05, 2011, 8:30 AM Updated: Wednesday, October 05, 2011, 12:17 PM The Times-Picayune By Mark Schleifstein The federal-state Gulf ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article1193341.ece TampaBay.com In Print: Sunday, September 25, 2011 The federal government has moved remarkably fast in the year since the BP oil spill to make offshore drilling safer. The new requirements for training and equipment will better enable crews to avoid a disaster and to respond if one occurs. And the government has rounded out this new ...Click Here to Read More.

http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/09/23/cuba-set-to-begin-offshore-drilling-is-florida-in-eco-straits/ Time Posted by TIM PADGETT Friday, September 23, 2011 at 3:58 pm The Cuban and Chinese national flags fly next to each other at an oil rig of the Great Wall Drilling Company, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), near Varadero, around 140 kilometres (86 miles) east of ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2011/09/gulf_oil_spill_investigators_s_1.html Looks like Chevron bought out the Interior chair. There should be a prohibition that anyone leaving government work on a specific industry–such as oil–is banned from going to work for them for a period of years. DV Times-Picayune Published: Thursday, September 22, 2011, 9:17 PM ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/585768/201109221832/Drill-Cuba-Drill.htm This pretty much sums up Big Oil’s perspective. DV Posted 06:32 PM ET While rich domestic sources of oil remain off-limits to American producers, a foreign consortium will use this Chinese-built rig to drill for crude.. Energy Policy: Deep-water drilling will resume in the Florida Strait when a ...Click Here to Read More.

I guess I never realized that old abandoned oil wells still have the potential to leak and create oil spills……..it’s an environmental threat that never goes away. DV News Release Date: September 19, 2011 Contact: D8 Staff (504) 671-2020 NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard continues the response to a report of a crude oil discharge in Bayou Dupont and north Barataria Bay, ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2011/sep/17/LAOPINO1-what-does-scott-really-think-about-drilli/ Highlands Today Saturday, September 17, 2011 Published: September 17, 2011 The Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach, on drilling in the Everglades: Gov. Rick Scott has some oily swampland he’d like to sell us. After presidential candidate Michele Bachmann suggested drilling in ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/blames+poor+management+spill/5400865/story.html BY REUTERS SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 9:04 AM WASHINGTON – U.S. federal investigators on Wednesday blamed the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history on poor management and failure to respond to critical indicators by companies drilling the doomed Macondo well. In their final report, investigators from the ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/12/140405282/cuban-offshore-drilling-plans-raise-u-s-concerns National Public Radio September 12, 2011 by NICK MIROFF An oil rig built by China is now en route to the deep waters off northwest Cuba, where it could begin drilling exploratory wells as soon as November. Recently, U.S. oil spill experts were in Havana, including the man who co-chaired the investigation ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2011/09/10/good-news-oil-drilling-off-florida-begins-nov-1-bad-news-its-in-cuba/ To all you NIMBYs in Florida and elsewhere, you can rest well with the knowledge that the best of Cuban industrial technology will be brought to bear in overseeing this operation. Per Richard Charter Posted by Steve Maley Saturday, September 10th at 1:00PM EDT While it’s been ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2011/09/tropical_storm_lee_surge_revea.html Big surprise. DeeVon Times-Picayune Published: Friday, September 09, 2011, 7:00 AM By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune Surge from Tropical Storm Lee uncovered numerous tar mats, dozens of tar balls and abandoned strings of oil snare pom-poms along a stretch of Fourchon Beach owned by the Wisner ...Click Here to Read More.

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2011/09/07/Dont-talk-oil-with-Cuba-lawmaker-warns/UPI-36531315399515/ Published: Sept. 7, 2011 at 8:45 AM WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) — Washington is sending the wrong message by having a delegation in Cuba review the country’s plans to drill offshore for oil and natural gas, a lawmaker said. A delegation led by William Reilly, a top ...Click Here to Read More.