Maritime News

The environmental group, Food and Water Watch, has filed for an injunction in Houston federal district court calling for a halt on drilling at BP’s Atlantis platform. They are questioning the way BP operates its oil rigs around the world.

 
BP was the operator of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig which exploded on April 20th. Eleven rig workers were killed in the offshore oil rig accident and the environmental damage is still being assessed.

 
The group would like to see independent monitoring of all BP oil rigs and drilling platforms in the United States and in the North Sea.  

 
The lawsuit is supported by the allegations of Ken Abbott, a former offshore worker subcontracted to BP. According to Abbot, 6,000 of the 7,000 documents that were supposed to be in place regarding the operation of the Atlantis platform were missing. He says his attempts to bring up his concerns were dismissed by the oil company.

 
Food and Water Watch would like to have production halted until these and other safety allegations are investigated.

Atlantis is a semi-submersible deepwater oil platform permanently located on the Green Canyon Atlantis Oil Field in the Gulf of Mexico about 190 miles south of New Orleans. It is the deepest moored semi-submersible platform in the world.

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