Boots & Coots specialists among 5 killed in blast during battle with Syrian blowout.
July 27th, 2010:
Shell 1995 blowout and 2006 loss of control (both Shell Syria)
Shell CEO Voser claims technology is key to energy security
Peter Voser, the chief executive officer at Royal Dutch Shell, told an audience in London that the global community needed to look for new ways to exploit renewable and fossil fuels.
“Even assuming heroic steps to use energy more efficiently, the world will need to develop all energy types,” he said.
Scientists at Shell said that without new ways to increase energy supplies, the world could face looming energy shortages in the coming decades even as new sources of energy such as Iraqi oil come on stream.
Shell Bay Marchand 1970 Well Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico
The entire platform burned. It was at the time the biggest production disaster in the history of the Gulf of Mexico. Shell let it burn rather than pollute the nearby delta. It took 9 months to drill all the relief wells to kill 23 boreholes.
By John Donovan
As a result of the current oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, reference has been made in some news articles to a major past tragedy in the Gulf. It also involved the deaths of offshore workers.
A massive offshore blaze on Platform “B”in the Bay Marchand field in the shallow offshore of the Louisiana coast ignited on Dec. 1, 1970. The platform was located about 65 miles south of New Orleans, in an area of considerable oil and gas activity, both offshore and in the bays.