North Sea

North Sea Well Blow-out Spikes Carbon Emissions

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Fuel, Energy, Europe, Oil Drilling, Statistically Speaking, Leak, Oil, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Drilling, Elgin Platform, North Sea, Blowout, Offshore Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Natural Gas, Green News

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok. Déjà vu? Not quite, but certainly some echoes of BP's Deepwater Horizon incident from two years ago. On March 25, the...

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The Newest Obstacle For Gas 'Well Kill'

Reuters | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Energy, Total North Sea, Total Gas Leak Inspection, Video, Elgin Platform Gas Leak, North Sea Gas Leak, Reuters, North Sea, Gas Leak North Sea, Gas Leak Elgin Platform, Total Elgin Platform Gas Leak, Green News

* Bad weather prevents experts from flying to the platform * Total says flight pushed back to Thursday, Friday * Experts...

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Efforts To Battle North Sea Gas Leak Hit By Rough Seas

Reuters | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Energy, Elgin Well, Video, Total North Sea, Reuters, North Sea Gas Leak, North Sea Gas, North Sea, Total Elgin Platform Gas Leak, Total Gas, Green News

* Gales forecast for North Sea area this afternoon -Met Office * Total to move drilling rigs from two nearby fields * T...

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How To Cap A Well Spewing Gas

Reuters | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Elgin Well, Total North Sea, Video, Reuters, North Sea Gas Leak, North Sea Oil Spill, Total Elgin Well, North Sea, Total Gas, Total Gas Leak, Green News

* Total, HSE to meet Monday to discuss risks in stopping leak * HSE expected to give Total positive advice * Danger of ...

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Permission To Kill The Well?

Reuters | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Elgin Well, Video, Total North Sea, North Sea Oil Spill, North Sea Gas Leak, Reuters, North Sea, Total Elgin Well, Total Gas, Total Gas Leak, Green News

By Muriel Boselli and Karolin Schaps PARIS, April 1 (Reuters) - British authorities are expected to grant French oil company Total per...

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'Hellfighters' To The Rescue In Potentially Disastrous Gas Leak

Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Video, Wild Well Control Gas Leak, Oil Spill Response, Wild Well Control, Total, Reuters, North Sea Gas Leak, North Sea Total, North Sea, Total Gas, Total Gas Leak, Green News

* Wild Well Control also worked on BP's Macondo disaster * UK's Oil Spill Response also called in By Henning Gloystein ...

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PROBLEM: Leaking Explosive Gas Plumes

Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Video, Total North Sea, Total Oil Leak, North Sea Oil Platform, Reuters, Total Oil, North Sea, Gas Leak North Sea, North Sea Oil Leak, North Sea Platform, Total Gas Leak, Green News

* Pressure change on Feb. 25 signalled trouble, govt told * Troubled well had been plugged year earlier * Company to dri...

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'World's Largest' Sand Mass Discovered

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: North Sea Sand Pile, Video, World's Biggest Sand Pile, North Sea Sand Discovery, North Sea, Oceans, World's Largest Sand Mass, Largest Sand Pile, North Sea Oil, Sand, North Sea Sand, Green News

By Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor: A giant mass of sand large enough to bury all of Manhattan under dunes more than 50 stories tall ...

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THAT CAN'T BE GOOD...

AP | BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Video, Elgin Gas Leak, Elgin Platform, Elgin North Sea, North Sea Gas Leak, Total Elgin, Total Elgin Leak, Elgin, North Sea, Total Elgin Platform, Ap, Total Gas Leak, Green News

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) — Environmental groups warned Thursday they fear an oil spill could be triggered at a North Sea offshore platform that has ...

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'An Explosion Waiting To Happen'?

Reuters | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Video, Total North Sea, Elgin North Sea Platform, Total, North Sea Gas Leak, Reuters, North Sea, Total Oil, Total Gas Leak, Elgin Gas Leak, Green News

* Elgin may become "an explosion waiting to happen" - consultant * Total shares under pressure * Wind taking gas away f...

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Stopping North Sea Gas Leak 'Could Take About Six Months'

Reuters | Posted 05.27.2012

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By Oleg Vukmanovic and Gwladys Fouche LONDON/OSLO, March 27 (Reuters) - A cloud of explosive natural gas boiling out ...

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Flammable Gas Leak Forces More Evacuations

AP | Posted 05.27.2012

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LONDON (AP) — Energy company Shell has evacuated some of its workers from two platforms in the North Sea that are near an underwater gas leak from a...

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Are We Really Ready to Expose Our Arctic Waters to the Threat of a Major Oil Spill?

Dennis Takahashi-Kelso | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Arctic Drilling, Oil Drilling, Beaufort Sea, Oil, Polar Bears, Deepwater Horizon, Chukchi Sea, North Sea, Alaska, Gulf Oil Spill, Canada, Shell Oil, Arctic, Exxon Valdez, Offshore Drilling, Arctic Oil, Green News

The icy waters north of Alaska are home to polar bears, walruses and whales; it's a fragile environment, and our understanding of this unique marine ecosystem is not well developed.

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North Sea Spill Reveals Risks of Drilling in the More Remote, Less Regulated Arctic

Frances Beinecke | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Britain, Norway, Bp, Beaufort Sea, North Sea, Alaska, Gulf Oil Spill, Offshore Drilling, Arctic, Deepwater Horizon, Offshore Drilling Regulation, Obama Offshore Drilling, Offshore Drilling Obama, Green News

Drilling in the inhospitable waters of the Arctic Oceans presents far more logistical and environmental challenges than the well-charted North Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

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Shell 'Deeply Regrets' Spill, Second Leak Pumps 84 Gallons Of Oil Daily Into North Sea

AP | By TOBY STERLING and MEERA SELVA | Posted 10.16.2011

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LONDON -- Royal Dutch Shell struggled to contain the worst North Sea oil spill in a decade as well as damage to its credibility Tuesday as a second le...

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Shell Fighting Oil Leak In North Sea

AP | Posted 10.12.2011

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AMSTERDAM -- Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Friday it is trying to stop oil leaking from a flow line at one of its drilling platforms in the North Sea off...

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Man Feared Dead As Melting Snow Floods Germany

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Germany Weather, Rhine River, Slidepollajax, Flooding, North Sea, Weather, Bonn, German Rhineland, Germany Flood, Koblenz, Colognemelt, Rhineland, World News

BERLIN (AP) -- Mild temperatures melted record December snowfalls across Germany, causing rivers from the Rhine in the west to the Oder in the east to...

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The Other Face of Hamburg (PHOTOS)

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

*SEE PHOTOS BELOW* What comes to mind when someone mentions Hamburg? A port city in the cold northern reaches of Germany with ubiquitous sex shops a...

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Wake Up and See the Dead Zones!

Peter Hanlon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fertilizer, Oil Spill, Anoxic, Biofuel, Gulf of Mexico, Fish, Agriculture, Dead Zone, East China Sea, Nitrogen, North Sea, Phosphorous, Baltic Sea, Hypoxic, Green News

All told, there are over 400 dead zones worldwide, affecting an area of more than 245,000 square kilometers, a number that has increased exponentially since the 1960s.

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