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Technological Developments Since the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill


Deepwater Horizon Gulf Restoration | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

When the oil spill occurred in 2010, the Service deployed staff from across the country to help with the response. Soon thereafter, we joined in the ...

Taming the Tide of Data from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill - Battelle

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response generated hundreds of thousands of environmental data points over the course of several years.

NASA-NOAA Tech Will Aid Marine Oil Spill Response

“We're using a radar instrument called UAVSAR to characterize the thickness of the oil within an oil slick,” said Cathleen Jones, MOST co- ...

Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon, new spills seem imminent

“Disasters like oil spills will happen again because this is an extremely high-risk operation, particularly when you're talking about drilling ...

How advanced technology will help prevent disasters

How advanced technology will help prevent disasters such as the BP oil spill from happening again ... as the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the worse ...

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 10 Years Later - ACC Docket

As we now search frantically for a cure to COVID-19, I think back to our 2010 search for a technology to close this high-pressure leak at ...

5 Wild Technologies Being Used Now to Clean Up the BP Oil Spill

In BP's attempt to plug the spill, numerous contraptions have been tried—and have failed. As we approach Month Four of the spill, the ideas ...

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Milestones | Smithsonian Ocean

The Spill · Explosion of Deepwater Horizon · Sinking of the rig · Flushing oil away with freshwater · Controlled burns begin · Taking immediate action · BP makes ...

Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Cleanup, Environmental Impact, BP

To clean oil from the open water, 1.8 million gallons of dispersants—substances that emulsified the oil, thus allowing for easier metabolism by ...

Assessing the Nation's Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

These include burning oil on the water's surface, blocking the oil's progress toward shore with boom, mechanically removing oil by skimming it ...

How Microbes Clean up Oil: Lessons From the Deepwater Horizon ...

Studies of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill using 'omics technologies revealed important microbial community dynamics that will enable better ...

Ministerial Forum Seeks Global Solutions to Deepwater Drilling ...

... from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and promote collaborative solutions for deepwater oil spill containment. “As global neighbors, we have a shared ...

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and ...

other advances in skimming technology — such as high volume skimmers, portable skimmers, and shallow draft skimmers — were put to use during the spill response.

Advances in Remote Sensing Technology, Machine Learning and ...

Findings show that both optical and microwave airborne and satellite remote sensors are used for oil spill monitoring with microwave sensors being more widely ...

How we clean oil spills hasn't changed in decades. These scientists ...

Little has changed in how oil spills are cleaned up, but scientists are working on new tools, including sponges that can absorb oil in water ...

Once praised, settlement to help sickened BP oil spill workers ...

When a deadly explosion destroyed BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the ...

About the DWH Funding Programs

The Trustees reached a final settlement with BP on April 4, 2016 to resolve BP's liability for natural resource injuries from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Beyond Petroleum: The Broader Effects of the Deepwater Horizon ...

The leak at the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon well appears to have been stopped. Of course, the oil that has been released into the ...

Large-Scale Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Can Local ...

Although much of the oil was collected, dispersed, or dissolved, as of July 2011, one year after the DWH oil well was capped, at least 490 miles ...

5 Improvements in Offshore Oil Drilling - Science | HowStuffWorks

Since the accident, BP has developed the Containment Disposal Project, a blueprint for how to use existing technology to respond quickly to oil spills based on ...