When most people think of Florida homes, a Tuscan farmhouse on the Gulf of Mexico isn’t the first image that springs to mind, making this property all the more impressive. Located in an exclusive area of Tierra Verde island on the Pinellas County side of Tampa Bay, the massive 12,000 square-foot, three-level residence has seven…
Rescue Teams Recover Plane After Crash Leaves 2 Dead, 1 Missing in Gulf of Mexico
Rescue teams have found the bodies of a woman and a female juvenile after a Florida plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday evening. The plane was recovered earlier on Monday. A 42-year-old man is still missing. The plane, a single-engine Piper Cherokee, departed from Venice Municipal Airport in Florida around 7:30 p.m….
Federal Court Reverses 2018 Gulf of Mexico Lease Sales
August 31, 2022
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A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday reversed a lower court’s decision which found that two 2018 lease sales by the U.S. Department of the Interior to oil companies in the Gulf of Mexico were valid. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected two arguments by environmental groups, but agreed that the agency…
Oil Leak Contained at Three US Gulf Platforms on Pipeline Outage, Shell Says
HOUSTON—Top U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil producer Shell said on Thursday it halted production at three U.S. Gulf of Mexico deepwater platforms after a leak shut two pipelines connecting the platforms, adding it expected pipeline service to resume on Friday. A failure at an onshore pipeline junction in Louisiana leaked about two barrels of oil,…
Federal Judge Blocks Sale of Gulf of Mexico Drilling Leases Due to Flawed Impact Analysis
January 29, 2022
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A U.S. federal judge has blocked the sale of offshore oil and gas drilling leases across some 80 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico, ruling that the environmental review that underpinned the sale was flawed. In the Jan. 27 ruling (pdf), U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in Washington said that the U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau…
US Offshore Oil Workers Flee as Storm Approaches Gulf of Mexico
HOUSTON—U.S. energy companies on Thursday began airlifting workers from Gulf of Mexico oil platforms and moved vessels ahead of what is forecast to become a powerful hurricane by the weekend. Tropical Storm Ida was swirling in the Caribbean Sea and forecast to march through the main oil-producing region of the Gulf on Friday. Louisiana declared…
Tropical Depression to Gain Strength En Route to Gulf of Mexico: NHC
Tropical depression Nine has formed over the Caribbean Sea and is expected to become a tropical storm on Thursday night before strengthening into a hurricane near western Cuba or the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Thursday. “Additional strengthening is likely over the Gulf of Mexico and the system could…
Hurricane Grace Hits Mexico’s Gulf Coast, 8 Dead
VERACRUZ, Mexico—Hurricane Grace swept onto Mexico’s Gulf coast as a major Category 3 storm and moved inland Saturday, drenching coastal and inland areas in its second landfall in the country in two days. At least eight people died, authorities said. The storm had lost power while crossing over the Yucatan Peninsula on Thursday, swirling through…
Mexico: Lightning Storm Ignited Gas Leak in Gulf
MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Monday that a bizarre chain of events, including a lightning storm and a simultaneous gas pipeline leak, set off a strange subaquatic fireball seen last week in the Gulf of Mexico. Petroleos Mexicanos said an intense storm of rain and lightning on July 2 forced the company to shut…
Coast Guard: Search for Missing Crew to Be Suspended
CUT OFF, La.—The U.S. Coast Guard said it will suspend the search for crew members who disappeared when a lift boat capsized off Louisiana last week at sunset Monday, and authorities do not expect to find more survivors from the vessel. The grim news from Capt. Will Watson, commander of the Coast Guard Sector New…
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