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Nighttime view of natural gas burning off in the Gulf of Mexico.

Nighttime view of natural gas burning off in the Gulf of Mexico.
Nighttime view of natural gas burning off in the Gulf of Mexico.
Nighttime view of natural gas burning off in the Gulf of Mexico.
Nighttime view of natural gas burning off in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Torres, Daniel
Nighttime view of natural gas burning off in the Gulf of Mexico.
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06/22/2010
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Natural gas piped up from a severed wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico is flared off by a ship during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Responders had to don respirators or stop working entirely at times because of unhealthy air quality. New research has found that large amounts of chemical dispersants injected above the crippled oil well may have diminished health risks for emergency responders working at the site. The study found reduced the amounts of harmful gases in the air at the sea surface, including a decrease by about 6,000 times in the atmospheric concentration of benzene, which may have enabled crews to keep working and clean the spill sooner.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 53, No. 1, pg. 4:
Natural gas piped up from a severed wellhead deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico is flared off by a ship at the surface during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Responders trying to stop the spill and mitigate damages had to put on respirators or stop working entirely at times because of unhealthy air quality.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 52, No. 1, pg. 4:
Natural gas piped up from a severed wellhead deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico is flared off by a ship at the surface during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. Responders trying to stop the spill and mitigate damages had to put on respirators or stop working entirely at times because of unhealthy air quality.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 48, No. 3, inside front cover:
WHOI scientists conducting research on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill confronted apocalyptic scenes. Natural gas piped up from the stricken undersea Macondo well is flared off by a ship at the surface.
Photo by Dan Torres
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