• The Exxon Valdez spilled roughly 11 million gallons of crude oil. (earth.com)
  • The Gulf region, including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, and federal offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, produces nearly 40 percent of total U.S. crude oil and 35 percent of total U.S. natural gas. (thehayride.com)
  • After a robotic arm lifted a solitary worm from a hole in the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in what looked like ordinary surroundings, crude oil streamed from both the animal and the open hole. (livescience.com)
  • Al Faw in the Persian Gulf pumps out roughly $17,000 a second in crude oil. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Corexit is a chemical dispersant which was used extensively during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, when 11 workers died and roughly 200 million gallons of crude oil were spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. (truthout.org)
  • By that time roughly 4.4 million barrels of oil had leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. (yourlawyer.com)
  • The EROFI for ultra-deepwater oil and gas at the well-head, ranged from 0.019 to 0.022 barrels (BOE), or roughly 0.85 gallons, per dollar. (mdpi.com)
  • Roughly 60 barrels of the oil entered Vince Bayou, a waterway that flows into the Gulf of Mexico. (workers.org)
  • Further, regarding the combined impacts of hurricanes Katrina and Rita on outer continental shelf structures in the Gulf of Mexico, the report stated , "124 spills were reported with a total volume of roughly 17,700 barrels of total petroleum products. (mediamatters.org)
  • A decision on ConocoPhillips Alaska's Willow project, in a federal oil reserve roughly the size of Indiana, could come by early March 2023. (cnn.com)
  • That's roughly the equivalent carbon pollution of 19 cars driven for one year. (salon.com)
  • They point to the worldwide CCS deployment required over the next three decades being roughly equivalent to the development of oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico over the past 70 years, or five times the development of Norwegian oil and gas infrastructure in the North Sea. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Like a spear thrusting into the Gulf of Mexico's gut, the Isle de Jean Charles is turbulent with ruinous daily oil and gas accidents, rising sea levels, and tropical storms. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Port Fourchon currently services over 90 percent of the Gulf of Mexico's deepwater oil production, and plays a strategic role in providing the U.S. with roughly 18 percent of its entire oil supply. (thehayride.com)
  • This project was paid for [in part] with federal funding from the Department of the Treasury through the State of Texas under the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (RESTORE Act). (uh.edu)
  • It's called Bermeja, and it may (or may not be) about 100 miles off the coast of the Yucatan in Mexico. (godlikeproductions.com)
  • Despite the economic and environmental devastation the BP oil spill brought to the Gulf Coast, the moratorium angered many who complained that it cost jobs and hurt the economy further. (yourlawyer.com)
  • Federal regulators announced Thursday the first ever Gulf of Mexico offshore wind lease sale, opening sites off the coast of Lake Charles and Galveston, Texas, that could potentially power nearly 1.3 million homes. (cleantechnica.com)
  • Gulf wind speeds are highest in the west off the coast of Texas and southwest Louisiana, so most development will likely be concentrated in those areas with wind turbines that can withstand Category 5 hurricanes. (cleantechnica.com)
  • Oil and gas pipelines span the continental U.S., with heavy concentrations in the Great Lakes area and the Gulf Coast states. (workers.org)
  • Union Pacific serves many of the fastest-growing U.S. population centers, operates from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways, connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only railroad serving all six major Mexico gateways. (prnewswire.com)
  • Deepwater fields produce some of the highest oil rates in the Gulf of Mexico, which are significantly higher off the southeastern Louisiana coast. (thehayride.com)
  • Over 45 percent of total U.S. petroleum refining capacity and 51 percent of total U.S. natural gas processing plant capacity are located along the Gulf Coast. (thehayride.com)
  • The study was funded by Equinor and the bureau's Gulf Coast Carbon Center. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Unlike offshore drilling projects in areas such as the Gulf of Mexico, this new project would involve creating an artificial island roughly five miles off the coast to host the drilling rather than using a traditional mobile drilling rig. (asme.org)
  • In the Caribbean basin, the Gulf Coast, northern Mexico, and what is now the U.S. Southwest, the decline in population during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was nothing short of catastrophic. (monthlyreview.org)
  • A series of maneuvers using the Dragon's Draco thrusters steered the capsule a safe distance from the station and lined up with the targeted recovery zone in the Gulf of Mexico roughly 34 miles (54 kilometers) off the coast near Pensacola, Florida. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it was conducting a large-scale search of the Gulf of Mexico for a Louisiana man reported missing from a cruise ship earlier in the week. (kob.com)
  • The Coast Guard launched two aircrews to comb a roughly 200-mile (322-kilometer) area following the path of the ship's voyage to Jamaica. (kob.com)
  • On Fox & Friends , Mike Huckabee falsely asserted, "When Katrina, a Cat-5 hurricane, hit the Gulf Coast, not one drop of oil was spilled off of those rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico. (mediamatters.org)
  • During the June 27 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends , former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who recently joined Fox News as a contributor, falsely asserted, "When Katrina, a Cat-5 hurricane, hit the Gulf Coast, not one drop of oil was spilled off of those rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico. (mediamatters.org)
  • This continued along the eastern seaboard and Gulf coast for the next 150+ years: an outbreak in 1873 affected an estimated 40,000 residents of New Orleans, and another in 1922 made its way through the entire Gulf coast. (cdc.gov)
  • He said that the greater contamination called into question the timing of decisions by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to reopen gulf fisheries after the spill and that it might be time to review the techniques that are used to determine such reopenings. (democraticunderground.com)
  • A very large specimen of a rare primitive finned octopod - nicknamed "Dumbos" because they flap a pair of large ear-like fins to swim, like the cartoon flying elephant - was discovered at roughly 3,280 to 9,840 feet (1,000 to 3,000 meters) during a 2009 voyage to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge led by Michael Vecchione, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries National Systematics Lab at the Smithsonian. (livescience.com)
  • The US government is poised to offer the first leases for offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico beginning in August. (cleantechnica.com)
  • And according to the report, the social cost of carbon emissions per acre for oil leases is over $16,000 and roughly $2,800 for natural gas leases. (salon.com)
  • Past characterizations of the country as rural, undemocratic, and protectionist have been replaced in the last decades of the twentieth century by descriptions that refer to Mexico as urban, opening to democracy, and market-oriented. (allrefer.com)
  • An analysis of water, sediment and seafood samples taken in 2010 during and after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has found higher contamination levels in some cases than previous studies by federal agencies did, casting doubt on some of the earlier sampling methods. (democraticunderground.com)
  • The BP oil spill, the largest ever oil spill on open water to date, contributed significantly to the historically high number of dolphin deaths in the Gulf of Mexico, says a two-year scientific study released July 19. (planetsave.com)
  • Over one year since the horrible BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, media attention on the matter has waned, politicians have gone back to their old ways, and oil companies. (planetsave.com)
  • Mexico City: A UFO expert has presented two allegedly 'non human' bodies with three fingered hands and feet and said to be 1,000 years old, at the Mexican Congress, the media reported. (gulfnews.com)
  • Carbon dating by the National Autonomous University of Mexico(UNAM) found the bodies, pictured with three-fingered hands and feet, no teeth and stereoscopic vision, were more than 1,000 years old. (gulfnews.com)
  • Oil outfits, digging extensive canals to lay pipelines crisscrossing southeastern Louisiana, have left behind a maze of slowly widening waterways through which the Gulf is sucking land out to sea. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • More pipelines have been built in recent years to bring Canada's tar sands oil to the Texas Gulf area to be refined and shipped abroad. (workers.org)
  • Energy produced by offshore wind does not result in the same climate consequences as offshore oil and gas energy production, which releases up to 87 metric tons of carbon dioxide per active acre in the Gulf of Mexico. (salon.com)
  • The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced this March that it generated $93 million in bids for a tract in the Gulf of Mexico that spans 78 million acres. (courthousenews.com)
  • A few weeks after allowing the controversial Willow oil drilling project in Alaska to go forward, the Biden administration is auctioning off more than 73 million acres of waters in the Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling. (cnn.com)
  • Last year, a federal judge invalidated an even larger Gulf oil and gas lease sale of 80 million acres, after finding that Interior's environmental analysis didn't adequately consider the climate impacts of adding millions of metric tons of planet-warming pollution to the atmosphere. (cnn.com)
  • BOEM published the final sale notice for three areas, each roughly 100,000 acres in federal waters. (cleantechnica.com)
  • Over the last 75 years, roughly 7000 platforms have been installed in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). (uh.edu)
  • It's going to lock in fossil fuel development in the Gulf for the next 50 years. (cnn.com)
  • For years, the idea of Mexican trucks entering the U.S. under NAFTA has been a contentious issue because they follow the notoriously dismal safety standards of a third-world country. (blogspot.com)
  • In fact, a few years ago the Department of Transportation's Inspector General determined that Mexican trucks that regularly travel throughout American highways are rarely checked for safety by U.S. authorities despite a provision requiring it . (blogspot.com)
  • Today's announcement follows years of engagement with government agencies, states, ocean users, and stakeholders in the Gulf of Mexico region. (cleantechnica.com)
  • His organization has been promoting the idea of offshore wind power in the Gulf of Mexico for 15 years. (cleantechnica.com)
  • Roughly $20 million will be awarded to these researchers over the next three years. (gulfresearchinitiative.org)
  • For thousands of years, the Tohono O'odham, which in the O'odham language means "desert people," developed patterns of seasonal migration that enabled them to survive in one of the most arid swaths of North America, stretching roughly from Phoenix, Arizona to Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, and from the Gulf of California in the west to Tucson in the east. (nacla.org)
  • The Mexican trucks enter the U.S. under a 17-year-old international trade pact known as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and they've created an air pollution crisis. (blogspot.com)
  • Because there's nothing better to spend our money on than retrofitting hazardous Mexican vehicles with anti-pollution equipment. (blogspot.com)
  • It could be the first Gulf of Mexico lease sale under the Biden administration that actually results in new drilling, after previous auctions were embroiled in legal challenges and delays. (cnn.com)
  • This species is roughly 5 to 6 mm in length. (wikipedia.org)
  • The jumbo Dumbo was estimated to be about six feet long (2 meters) and, at roughly 13 lbs. (6 kg), the largest of only a few specimens of the species ever obtained. (livescience.com)
  • At the end, it bloomed into a startling curved shape and swam away to find another meal, which scientists recorded on video at roughly 1.7 miles deep (2,750 meters) on a 2007 voyage in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. (livescience.com)
  • In 2013, scientists found that the chemical had a negative impact on coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico. (truthout.org)
  • We're really disappointed we didn't see something lesser in scope, this is basically offering up most of the Gulf," Torgun said. (cnn.com)
  • These PHIN Vocabulary Groups roughly follow the scope of the White House E-Gov Consolidation Health Informatics (CHI) domains. (cdc.gov)
  • The bodies shown were roughly humanoid in shape -- a retractable neck and long skull show 'characteristics' more 'typical of birds', the Daily Mail quoted the Mexican El Pais newspaper as saying. (gulfnews.com)
  • Thirty square miles of South Louisiana's land- an area roughly the size of Manhattan - vanish every year into the Gulf of Mexico. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • In the area of present-day Mexico, the earliest settlers found a rugged and varied topography with only limited areas suited for human habitation. (allrefer.com)
  • Central Tropical Atlantic (AL92): Satellite images indicate that the area of low pressure located roughly midway between Africa and the Lesser Antilles has become better organized overnight and is close to becoming a tropical cyclone. (noaa.gov)
  • By catalyzing the offshore wind energy potential of the Gulf of Mexico, we can tackle the climate crisis, lower energy costs for families and create good-paying jobs," said Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. (cleantechnica.com)
  • Stained American flags billow slowly in the Gulf breeze, affixed to porches where one can catch the nasal tones of plaid-clad men bantering in Cajun French. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • Roughly 0.3 percentage point of the decline in overall industrial production in August reflected the effect of precautionary idling of production in late August along the Gulf of Mexico in anticipation of Hurricane Isaac, and part of the rise in September is a result of the subsequent resumption of activity at idled facilities. (federalreserve.gov)
  • Hurricane Barry v. Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone: Who Won? (gulfhypoxia.net)
  • This form of slavery coexisted roughly with enslavement of Africans, leading to a catastrophic decline in the population of indigenes. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Together, the two satellites scan the entire surface of the planet roughly once every day. (newscientist.com)
  • The air quality in border towns has been especially impacted by the exorbitant levels of exhaust released by the Mexican trucks, which also fail to meet American safety standards. (blogspot.com)
  • Doug, I live on the border in South Texas roughly 60 miles up from the Gulf of Mexico. (blogspot.com)
  • Apprehensions of children and their families at the U.S.-Mexico border since October 2015 have more than doubled from a year ago and now outnumber apprehensions of unaccompanied children, a figure that also increased this year, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. (pewresearch.org)
  • Border apprehensions of children, considered an indicator of the flows of child migrants entering the U.S. illegally, dropped off steeply in fiscal 2015 as Mexico stepped up deportations of Central American children and the U.S. government launched public information campaigns in Central American countries to discourage children from making the trip north. (pewresearch.org)
  • The surge in family apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2016 is driven by migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, who together make up 90% of these apprehensions so far this fiscal year. (pewresearch.org)
  • In addition, the governor of Texas extended the deployment of the state's National Guard at the border with Mexico in December, which coincided with a spike that month in border apprehensions. (pewresearch.org)
  • Roughly two-thirds of family apprehensions in this fiscal year have come at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande sector, located along the southernmost tip of Texas and bounded by Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico. (pewresearch.org)
  • On the U.S.-Mexico border, the Tohono O'odham Nation is forming a transnational movement to resist salt mining projects in the Gulf of California. (nacla.org)
  • This was the eighth year they'd undertaken the Tohono O'odham Men's Salt Pilgrimage, which has gained new significance for an Indigenous people cleaved in two by the U.S.-Mexico border, and threatened by Trump's plan to build an "impenetrable" wall across 75 miles of their reservation. (nacla.org)
  • Since Trump's election, O'odham on both sides of the border are leading an increasingly outspoken struggle to defend their land and way of life against threats of its destruction-both from a fortified wall that would further divide them, and from the environmental consequences that appear to be deepening during the presidencies of Trump and his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Peña Nieto. (nacla.org)
  • Following a large dengue epidemic in Mexico that spilled over into south Texas in 2005 , an investigation revealed not only that stable populations of Aedes mosquitoes were established along the Texas side of the U.S.-Mexico border, but also that 39% of residents had been previously infected with a dengue virus. (cdc.gov)
  • EPA grants have [already] upgraded 55 Mexican trucks and many more will be enhanced this year. (blogspot.com)
  • Friday's weather maps showed a broad subtropical ridge of high pressure, or heat dome, covering the entire southern U.S. and northern Mexico. (lcra.org)
  • The "yeti crabs" - crabs with furry claws that resemble stories of the yeti, or abominable snowman - were discovered in 2005 south of Easter Island in the South Pacific, living on hydrothermal vents at a depth of roughly 7,200 feet (2,200 meters) along the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge by researchers affiliated with the Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems project. (livescience.com)
  • Next, Lady M is planning to expand her healthy eating agenda by equipping Mexican trucks with organic juice and salad bars! (blogspot.com)
  • But for the massive revolt of the indigenous in 1680 in what is now New Mexico, the toll might have been much worse. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The Dallas to Dock service transports plastic pellets in hopper cars from the Gulf region and ships the product to Dallas, where the pellets are packaged and transferred into intermodal containers. (up.com)
  • Much of Texas is predicted to be on the eastern periphery of the ridge, and as a result, readings are forecast to moderate down roughly 2-5 degrees. (lcra.org)
  • This week CDC Dengue Branch and co-investigators in Texas and New Mexico reported a locally acquired, dengue-related death in the continental United States. (cdc.gov)
  • A number of Mexican and American officials were present in Congress on Tuesday, including Ryan Graves, a retired director of the US Navy and a former navy pilot who gave a testimony earlier this year on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) sightings and government classification. (gulfnews.com)
  • The base of the Y is a spine of mountains, with occasional breaks, that extends from central Mexico into Guatemala on the south. (allrefer.com)
  • The center of the Y is a knot of active volcanoes in the center of the country, just south of Mexico City. (allrefer.com)
  • After the Olmec in what is now called the Classic Period (0-A.D. 700), the Teotihuac n, Veracruz, and Monte Alb n cultures built large ceremonial cities in south-central and eastern Mexico. (allrefer.com)
  • The team studied MODIS images of the north-western Gulf of Mexico taken at intervals of just a few hours. (newscientist.com)
  • The Louisiana Oil & Gas Association, Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, Gulf Economic Survival Team and many other associations also participated or supported the efforts to launch the series. (thehayride.com)
  • In terms of family formation, youth numerous children (as happened in the total world population) to roughly 366 are often at the stage of identifying a recent past) or the elderly (as will occur million in 2010 (about 6% of the world partner for marriage, childbearing and in the near future). (who.int)
  • After A.D. 900, the center of power and culture shifted to the Valley of Mexico, site of present-day Mexico City, with the development of the Toltec and finally the Aztec empires. (allrefer.com)
  • That's a good thing, because with water temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico now above 90º F (32º C) for the first time in recorded history, more powerful storms are coming to the Gulf in the very near future. (cleantechnica.com)
  • The purpose of this paper is to calculate the energy return on financial investment (EROFI) of oil and gas production in the ultra-deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM) in 2009 and for the estimated oil reserves of the Macondo Prospect (Mississippi Canyon Block 252). (mdpi.com)
  • New to Gulf News? (gulfnews.com)
  • Authorities also have asked mariners in the Gulf to be on the lookout, the agency said in a news release. (kob.com)