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Exclusive: 2020’s Hurricane Zeta Nearly Caused ‘Another Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe’ in Gulf of Mexico
The near-miss raises questions of corporate management in a battered oil industry, how drillers will handle increasingly volatile hurricanes, and federal oversight of the offshore drilling industry nearly 11 years after the Gulf of Mexico was coated in oil.
The Transocean Deepwater Asgard on January 10, 2018. Credit: Image courtesy of Healthy Gulf
It was Thursday, October 22, 2020, when the crew aboard the Transocean Deepwater Asgard, an ultra-deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexico, started monitoring a weather disturbance in the nearby Caribbean Sea that bore the tell-tale signs of a forming hurricane.
Exclusive: 2020 s Hurricane Zeta nearly caused another deepwater horizon catastrophe in Gulf of Mexico
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Basin groups form coalition; ask for seats on task force
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and last updated 2020-12-22 10:58:48-05
Several Louisiana organizations have joined together to form The Atchafalaya Basin Coalition, and are asking the governor for representation on the newly-formed task force.
The Coalition consists of fishermen and environmental groups with the common purpose of protecting Louisianaâs Atchafalaya Basin swamps, lakes, and waterways for generations to come, a release states.
Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association West, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, Sierra Club, and Healthy Gulf all have serious concerns that there are issues in the Atchafalaya Basin that are not currently being adequately addressed and managed, the release states.