{"id":1607,"date":"2015-04-27T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T19:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/blog\/offshore-oilfield-consultants\/five-years-after-deepwater-horizon-recovery-efforts-continue\/"},"modified":"2015-05-27T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T18:00:51","slug":"five-years-after-deepwater-horizon-recovery-efforts-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/blog\/offshore-oilfield-consultants\/five-years-after-deepwater-horizon-recovery-efforts-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Five years after Deepwater Horizon, recovery efforts continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This April 20&nbsp;marked the five year anniversary of the infamous Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This event remains a historic reminder of the danger inherent in energy exploration efforts.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"dnautolink\">Offshore oilfield insurance<\/a> is a critical aid to companies involved in drilling-related catastrophes.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, there are hundreds of projects currently&nbsp;at work&nbsp;that are meant to restore the Gulf area. The Times-Picayune reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/environment\/index.ssf\/2015\/04\/gulf_states_organization_creat_1.html\" target=\"_blank\">a new online tool<\/a>, the&nbsp;Deepwater Horizon Project Tracker, allows users to follow restoration&nbsp;efforts as they develop.<\/p>\n<p>The database will be an evolving source of information that tracks initiatives as they are launched. Many of the projects take place in Louisiana, which has received&nbsp;hundreds of millions of dollars in support from British Petroleum (BP) since the spill. Over the years, the company has invested in various local environmental measures, including a barrier island restoration project in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the continuing&nbsp;work, the environment of the Gulf is still&nbsp;in need of management. In an article from Texas A&amp;M University-Corpus Christi&#039;s&nbsp;Harte Research Institute, executive director Dr. Larry McKinney said that the Gulf environment has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harteresearchinstitute.org\/gulf-resilient-five-years-after-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\">the ability to &quot;bounce back.&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;The spill was a tremendous test of that resiliency, and five years later it seems the Gulf has passed,&quot; he said. &quot;But questions remain about the impact of the spill on long-lived species like turtles, marine mammals, cold-water corals and the deep Gulf ecosystem.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>ABC News reports that the final ruling on the spill is due in the coming months. Even though BP has dedicated $30 billion to efforts in response to the damage, it faces charges of negligence and violating the Clean Water Act. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With oilfield insurance, companies that manage intensive drilling operations have a means to mitigate liability costs and avoid heavy losses if a spill happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month marked the five-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}