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Heriot-Watt scientists crack oil-eating bacteria genetic code while testing oil spill water samples
2016-05-11 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered the genetic code of the marine bacteria which fed on the oil spilled in the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which could aid in future clean-up efforts.
BP Oil Spill Trashed More Shoreline Than Scientists Thought
2016-04-20 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The largest oil spill in U.S. history was even bigger than previously thought, at least in terms of the amount of coastline that was oiled, scientists report in a new study. The findings shed new light onto the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, which began six years ago Wednesday. Scientists from the federal government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and several private research companies found oil along 1,313 miles (2,113 kilometers) out of 5,930 miles (9,545...
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N.Y. Officials Reach Oil Spill Settlement With ExxonMobil04/14/2016
2016-04-16 03:26:38| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman earlier this month announced a $10.75 million settlement with Exxon Mobil Corp. to reimburse the New York Environmental Protection and Spill Compensation Fund for oil spill cleanup and petroleum contamination removal costs at eight locations across the state. ExxonMobil and ExxonMobil Oil Corp., individually and as successors-in-interest to Mobil Oil Corp. and Mobil Corp., operated the sites of the spills as gas stations, some as early as the 1930s.
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TransCanada shuts down Keystone pipeline after oil spill in South Dakota
2016-04-05 14:56:01| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
TransCanada has shut down its Keystone pipeline while it investigates an oil spill in South Dakota, the company said Monday. Mark Cooper, a spokesman for TransCanada, said a local landowner noticed signs of an oil spill around noon local time Saturday and informed the company.
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Judge Approves Multi-Billion BP Oil Spill Settlement
2016-04-05 02:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: A federal judge in New Orleans today set his stamp of approval on an $18.7 billion civil settlement in the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon April 21, 2010. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier approved the agreement reached with the U.S. government and five Gulf states: Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas -- resolving years of litigation over the worst offshore...
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