As part of an unusual mortality event investigation, a team of scientists has discovered that dead bottlenose dolphins stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since the start of the Deepwater Horizonoil spill have lung and adrenal lesions consistent with petroleum product exposure according to a paper published Wednesday in the peer-reviewed online journal PLOS […]
Governor Parnell, Monday, issued a statement after learning of BP’s announcement that they would be laying off a nearly a fifth of their workforce less than one month after voters took to the polls to defeat ballot measure 1. That ballot measure would have repealed Senate Bill 21 that would have taken back tax cuts given to […]
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation has upgraded the size of the spill at the BPXA West Operating Area, H Pad Well in Prudhoe Bay on Wednesday. Originally, BP reported a spill area of approximately 27 acres after a six-inch pipe coming from the wellhead ruptured spraying natural gas and water containing crude oil burst and […]
BP announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to sell interests in four BP-operated oilfields on the North Slope of Alaska to Hilcorp. The sale agreement includes all of BP’s interests in the Endicott and Northstar oilfields and a 50 percent interest in each of the Liberty and the Milne Point fields. The sale also […]