On Tuesday the Obama administration cheered the release of the Long Term Gulf Coast Restoration Support Plan authored by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus. The 130-page document asks that Congress apply the ...

In a paper recently published in the journal Ocean Engineering, researchers employed a free-surface vortex method for crude oil recovery, while studying its flow process in a vortex by carrying out ...

A week from today will mark the one-year anniversary of the oil rig explosion of Deepwater Horizon that triggered the largest marine oil spill in history. For three months, rust-colored sludge gushed ...

Marine biologist who helped in Texas, Mexico encourages hope, caution. August 17, 2010 — -- In 1979, the collapse of the Ixtoc 1 rig emptied about 140 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of ...

Cathelco, part of Evac Group, has won an order to deliver marine growth prevention system (MGPS) for a new multi-purpose oil spill response and towage vessel being built for the Kuwait Oil Co.The ...

Lambda Energy has revealed that an oil spill in the Pigeon River County State Forest in April was significantly larger than ...

Some $25 billion is headed to the five Gulf states that were devastated in the 2010 BP oil disaster. Just a fraction of the government fines and court settlements have been paid — but not all of it ...

Decades of research shows waves, wind and darkness would defeat containment efforts for much of the year, raising questions ...

Dutch Damen Shipyards Group has signed a deal with Korean yard Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) to deliver components for an oil recovery/dredging vessel. Under the deal, Damen will ...

The Alaska congressional delegation’s reintroduction of their “Chugach Alaska Land Exchange and Oil Spill Recovery Act,” is an example of the sort of backroom deals between elected representatives and ...

Federal regulators have ordered the operator of the Keystone Pipeline to take several corrective actions after a rupture caused 147,000 gallons of oil to spill onto farmland in North Dakota, and the ...