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Timeline Of The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (May 2010)
Following is a Timeline of the ''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill for May 2010. Before May 1 May May 1–5 *May 1 :*Two military C-130 Hercules aircraft were employed to spray oil dispersant. *May 2 :*Obama meets with fishermen and Coast Guard in Venice, Louisiana. Oil discovered in the South Pass. :*Transocean's '' Development Driller III'' started drilling a first relief well. High winds and rough waves rendered oil-catching booms largely ineffective. *May 3 :*BP says it will pay cleanup costs. Fishing areas remain closed. :*Shares of Nalco Holding Company jump 18% in one day after it is revealed its dispersant products are being use for cleanup. *May 4 :*BP proposes a containment dome. *May 5 :*BP announces that the smallest of three known leaks had been capped allowing the repair group to focus their efforts on the remaining leaks. May 6–10 *May 6 :*Oil sheen discovered in south end of Chandeleur Chain. *May 7 :*A container dome is lowered over the largest of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
The following is a timeline of the ''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill or the Macondo blowout). It was a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest offshore spill in U.S. history. It was a result of the well blowout that began with the ''Deepwater Horizon'' drilling rig explosion on April 20, 2010. Background 2008 *March 2008 – The mineral rights to drill for oil at the Macondo well, located in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the United States sector of the Gulf of Mexico about off the Louisiana coast, were purchased by BP at the Minerals Management Service's (MMS) Lease Sale No. 206, held in New Orleans. 2009 *February – BP files a 52-page exploration and environmental impact plan for the Macondo well with the MMS. The plan stated that it was "unlikely that an accidental surface or subsurface oil spill would occur from the proposed activities". In the event an accident did take place the plan stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dauphin Island
Dauphin Island is an island town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, on a barrier island of the same name, in the Gulf of Mexico. It incorporated in 1988. The population was 1,778 at the 2020 census, up from 1,238 at the 2010 census. The town is part of the Mobile metropolitan area. The island (originally named Massacre Island) was renamed for Louis XIV of France's great-grandson and heir, the dauphin, the future Louis XV of France. The name of the island is often mistaken as Dolphin Island; the word ''dauphin'' is French for dolphin, but historically, the term was used as the title of the heir apparent to the French monarch. The island is one of the Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands, with the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and the Mississippi Sound and Mobile Bay to the north. The island's eastern end helps define the mouth of Mobile Bay. The eastern, wider portion of the island is shaded by thick stands of pine trees and saw palmettos, but the narrow, western part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Oynes
Chris Craig Oynes (28 April 1947 – 18 October 2017) was an American lawyer and federal government administrator. Oynes was born in Anaheim, California to Christian and Lorraine Oynes. Oynes received a BA degree in political science from California State University at Fullerton, and he received a JD degree from George Washington University. Oynes served as U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) associate director for offshore energy and minerals management before he retired in May 2010. During the 1990s, Oynes served as Deputy Regional Director of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Region, and he was named Regional Director of that office in 1995. Oynes who oversaw oil and gas leasing in the Gulf of Mexico for 13 years before being promoted to MMS associate director. In his duties as Regional Director of the Gulf of Mexico office, Oynes' managed the leasing of the OCS lands for oil, gas, and other marine minerals. This office was also responsible for environmental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Purdue University
Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture in his name. The first classes were held on September 16, 1874, with six instructors and 39 students. It has been ranked as among the best public universities in the United States by major institutional rankings, and is renowned for its engineering program. The main campus in West Lafayette offers more than 200 majors for undergraduates, over 70 masters and doctoral programs, and professional degrees in pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and doctor of nursing practice. In addition, Purdue has 18 intercollegiate sports teams and more than 900 student organizations. Purdue is the founding member of the Big Ten Conference and enrolls the largest student body of any individual univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Wereley
Steve Wereley is a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University. His areas of research include Micro- and Nanofluidics, Particle Image Velocimetry, Opto-microfluidics and bio-MEMS. He is the co-inventor of micro-PIV. Education In 1990, Wereley completed his undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, and physics at Lawrence University. Wereley earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He spent two years working with Carl Meinhart at the University of California Santa Barbara, specializing in microfluidic diagnostic techniques. Career In 1999, Wereley became an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University. In 2005, Wereley was promoted to associate professor and in 2010 to professor. Deepwater Horizon Wereley played an important role in assessing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the summer of 2010. On May 13, 2010, he was among the first scientis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Markey
Edward John Markey (born July 11, 1946) is an American lawyer, politician, and former Army reservist who has served as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from Massachusetts since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, he was the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for from 1976 to 2013. Between the House and Senate, Markey has served in United States Congress, Congress for more than four decades. He was also a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1973 to 1976. In 2013, after John Kerry was appointed United States Secretary of State, Markey was elected to serve out the remainder of Kerry's Senate term in a 2013 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2013 special election. Markey defeated Stephen F. Lynch, Stephen Lynch in the Democratic primary and Republican party (United States), Republican Gabriel E. Gomez in the general el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discoverer Enterprise
''Discoverer Enterprise'' is a fifth generation deepwater double hulled dynamically positioned drillship (ASTANO FPSO design) owned and operated by Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc., capable of operating in moderate environments and water depths up to 3,049 m (10,000 ft) using an , 15,000 psi blowout preventer (BOP), and a outside diameter (OD) marine riser. From 1998 to 2005 the vessel was Panama-flagged and currently flies the flag of convenience of the Marshall Islands. ''Discoverer Enterprise'' has two sister ships, ''Discoverer Spirit'' completed in 1999, and ''Discoverer Deep Seas'' completed in 2000. The ship was the first to offer a dual drilling derrick capability. The dual derricks allowed simultaneous operations to be performed, and according to Transocean increased efficiency by 40 percent. The US$360 million ship gives its name to the Enterprise Class of large deepwater drillships. ''Deepwater Horizon'' spill response The ship operates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GSF Development Driller II
''GSF Development Driller II'' is a fifth generation, Vanuatu-flagged dynamic positioning semi-submersible ultra-deepwater drilling rig owned and operated by Transocean. The vessel is capable of drilling in water depths up to with drilling depth of , upgradeable to . ''Development Driller II'' was deployed in drilling a relief well on the Macondo Prospect to stop the oil spill caused by the explosion and subsequent loss of ''Deepwater Horizon ''Deepwater Horizon'' was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by BP. On 20 April 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on ...''. References External linksTransocean official websiteat ''VesselTracker'' {{Deepwater 2004 ships Drilling rigs Semi-submersibles Ships built in Singapore Transocean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Admiralty Law
Admiralty law in the United States is a matter of federal law. Jurisdiction In the United States, the federal district courts have jurisdiction over all admiralty and maritime actions; see . In recent years, a non-historically-based conspiracy argument used by tax protesters is that an American court displaying an American flag with a gold fringe is in fact an "admiralty court" and thus has no jurisdiction. Courts have repeatedly dismissed this as frivolous. In United States v. Greenstreet, the court summarized their finding to this argument with, "Unfortunately for Defendant Greenstreet, decor is not a determinant for jurisdiction." Applicable law A state court hearing an admiralty or maritime case is required to apply the admiralty and maritime law, even if it conflicts with the law of the state, under a doctrine known as the "reverse-''Erie'' doctrine." The ''Erie'' doctrine, derived from ''Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins ''Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins'', 304 U.S. 64 (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
