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http://www.datasite.com - The US oil and gas sector could soon see a raft of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity as a result of the new regulations brought in following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. New York, US (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 Click here to read the full article: http://bit.ly/15F8gLj The US oil and gas sector could soon see a raft of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity as a result of the new regulations brought in following the Deepwater...

HAMPTON, Va., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It is considered the worst oil spill in U.S. history and required a small army of engineers, scientists and others to stop the flow of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, the ninth-largest body of water in the world. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) On Tuesday, March 5, at NASA's Langley Research Center, Paul Hsieh will present, "The Science Behind the Taming of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill," at 2 p.m....

University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science Groundbreaking 3D models show that oil droplets were too small for dispersants to have significant impact The 2010 blowout of the Macondo well in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico resulted in the region's largest oil spill in U.S. history. As the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) incident unfolded, in an effort to prevent the oil from coming to the surface and reaching coastal and marsh ecosystems, chemical dispersants were...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online In 2010, British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon offshore oilrig spilled 4.9 billion gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, creating an ecological disaster. A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA) reveals that the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up is even worse – 52 times more toxic than the oil alone. The research team, using oil from the...

Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Deepwater Horizon, an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible off-shore drilling rig was an engineering marvel that set the record for drilling the world’s deepest oil well in September 2009. The roughly 7-mile-deep well is now infamous for being the site of the single largest off-shore oil spill in history, a disaster that captured the attention of world media for over 3 months. While BP has accepted...