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This has not been a good year for oil producers in more ways than one! There is yet another oil spill from a split pipeline in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay area at North Slope. The two foot long split was discovered on November 29 on a routine inspection. The line serves the Lisburne field and is operated by BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. BP first took the Lisburne line out of service when it stopped flowing normally a few weeks ago.

It is an oil producers worst nightmare; an uncontrolled oil spill. That is what happened on Friday, August 21st, at the West Atlas mobile offshore drilling unit. The blow-out occurred in one of the remotest locations possible in the Timor Sea around a depth of 3500 meters (two miles). Reportedly the oil spill began when a plug at a drilling hole released for unspecified reasons following a hydrogen sulfide leak. All 69 workers were evacuated from the rig that day.

It isn’t very often that oil and gas exploration uncovers its own modern day mystery, but apparently one has developed this June in the Gulf of Mexico. It seems that “Isla Bermeja” is missing. It was a 31 square mile patch of wasteland but Mexico has vowed to keep looking for it since it could extend its 200-mile territorial limit for offshore oil claims.

Bermeja appears on ancient maps from the 17th and 18th centuries off the north coast of the Mexican state of Yucatan. However it can no longer be found on more recent maps. In fact, it does not appear on even the oldest satellite pictures of the area dating back to the late 1970’s and 1980’s. ...