Recent Posts in Oil Spill Category
Posted on Apr 23, 2012 By Offshore Injury Lawyer
It's been two years since the explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 employees and sparked one of the worst oil spills in history, yet Congress hasn't enacted a single ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2012 By Offshore Injury Lawyer
The M/V Rena, a Greek container ship that ran aground off the coast of New Zealand last October, faced more trouble this week. In the midst of salvage efforts to recover the 1712 tons of oil and 1368 ...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2012 By Offshore Injury Lawyer
A Brazilian federal prosecutor filed charges against Chevron and drill-rig operator Transocean this week over a November 2011 oil spill that occurred 75 miles off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The leak ...
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Posted on Mar 21, 2012 By Offshore Injury Attorney
The Elgin platform located in the North Sea is continuing to leak gas, so Total SA is considering plans to drill a relief well in hopes of stopping the leak. The cause of the leak is still unknown, ...
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Posted on Mar 19, 2012 By Offshore Injury Attorney
In an accident that recently took place in an Everett, Washington shipyard, a drydock that was housing a tug vessel sunk. The tug was estimated to be carrying up to 60k gallons of diesel fuel. This ...
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Posted on Jan 12, 2012 By Offshore Injury Lawyer
When the 205-foot former Navy tug, the Tug Tiger, sank while moored in the Port of Richmond on December 11, 2011, oil began slowly leaking from the vessel. The cleanup operations almost immediately ...
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