Tag: Gulf of Mexico

Offshore Oil and Gas on the Gulf Coast: Mitigating Risks with Data

In 2016, the US offshore oil and natural gas industries—which are heavily concentrated in the Gulf of Mexico— contributed 315,000 jobs and USD 30 billion to the US economy. These industries are...

Study on 14-Year-Old Disaster Finds Oil Still Leaking into Sea

It's been more than 14 years since Hurricane Ivan made landfall on the Gulf Coast of the United States as a Category 3 storm, with wind speeds approaching 200 kilometers per hour...

THE GULF OF MEXICO: Ocean ‘Dead Zones’ Larger than the United Kingdom

The meat industry is being blamed for the worst ever dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Why do these oxygen-poor stretches of ocean, which can't support most marine life, continue to...

Shell Starts Production at Stones in the Gulf of Mexico

Shell announces recently  that production has started from the Stones development in the Gulf of Mexico. Stones is expected to produce around 50,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day  when fully ramped...

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