Category Archives: Oil Spills

This article was printed today in the NYTimes. A panel put together by President Obama concluded that both the companies and the government officials who are charged to regulate and oversee these companies failed to take the necessary steps to … Continue reading →

Sorry I didn’t post this before (Thanks to Noah S. for reminding me!!!)

These pictures are from my visit to the National Response Corporation yard in Alameda.

If you’re interested, you can watch Crude Awakening online for free! Just click on the picture.  Hope you found the information in the film interesting even though it paints a dire picture.

Oil spill information links for Glog research General Oil Spills Exploring Earth: Oil Spill- interactive website, info about oil spills and how they spread NOAA: What’s the Story on Oil Spills?-info about how oil spills happen, cleanup methods, who’s responsible, … Continue reading →

By popular request…. just click on the thumbnail for a bigger picture or click on the links: Reading: Petroleum Reading: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 2010 Link to the NYTimes:  Interactive Map of Oil Spill-Oil Spill tracking More images from … Continue reading →

Yes, pom-poms are used to clean up oil spills!  They’re both made up of hydrocarbons and they attract each other.  Check out this video:

I will continue to add more…but we’ll start with this: *Visualize the Oil Spill *History of Major Oil Spills *Interactive graphics- Wall Street Journal- great resource for info about oil leak and ways to plug it up

Here’s a video of our off-shore oil reservoir model: