Oil spills - Mexico, Gulf of

Date: 2010

From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]

Reference: DCDL-0029354

Description: Black and white cartoon shows an executive from the BP oil company, who has been tied up and is hanging upside down underwater to plug the hole from which the deep sea oil spill is emanating. Cartoon references the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which began when a BP oil rig exploded and sank, claiming eleven lives, and releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the gulf. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014317

Description: The cartoon shows an oil-covered flamingo and alligator. A tourist guide in a boat tells his group of tourists that they are a 'flamingoil and an oilygator'. Refers to the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that started when a rig sank on 20th April 2010. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0014598

Description: The cartoon shows the astronomical figure of $28,000,000,000 which has the letters 'il' printed small after each zero, making them read 'oil, oil,oil' Text above reads 'BP's compensation bill(Ions). Refers to the $20 billion compensation that BP has to pay in damages and in the clean up after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0014533

Description: The cartoon is headed 'Crude awakenings'; it shows an oil-covered pelican saying 'thanks to BP, I now wake up very oily in the morning'. Wordplay on 'early' and 'oily' and on the word 'crude' which can mean 'rough' or 'oil'. A second version has the heading 'Crude remarks' and the pelican says 'BP are a slick joke'. Wordplay on 'slick' as in 'oily' and 'sick'as in 'bad taste' joke. Refers to the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is ruining the coastline and wildlife of four states. BP is responsible and vows to clean up the mess but they have not yet, after a month, managed to stop the spilling. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0014800

Description: A man and a woman are sailing in their boat 'Sprite' and notice that the water seems to be covered with either 'oil from the Gulf or dairying effluent from New Zealand'. Refers to the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and also the problem of effluent from dairy farms getting into New Zealand's waterways. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014934

Description: The cartoon shows American President Obama up to his neck in an oily sea with a grey cloud pouring rain on his head. With one hand he tries to bung the BP oil spill and with the other the Afghan secrets leak. Refers to the damage the president is trying to contain because of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and the leaks of military secrets to Wikileaks. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0014532

Description: The cartoon shows an image covered in black oil through which a pair of eyes in the shape of 'bp' peer. The heading reads 'Slick humour'. Refers to the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is ruining the coastline and wildlife of four states. BP is responsible and vows to clean up the mess but they have not yet, after a month, managed to stop the spilling. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0014713

Description: The cartoon shows Earth tipped on its axis in space so that the Gulf of Mexico region is on top. A space station nearby observes this phenomen and someone realises that this had to happen as oil always comes to the top. Refers to the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0014757

Description: Caricature of Tony Haywood, Chief Executive of oil and energy company BP Group, involved with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014816

Description: The cartoon is entitled 'A solution for the oil slick?' The cartoon shows the CEO of BP upside down and jammed headfirst into a pipe thus preventing the oil from escaping. Refers to the struggle to find a solution to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP is considered responsible - the CEO is Tony Hayward. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0014345

Description: The cartoon shows three men sitting at a desk at a Congress hearing about the oil spill In the Gulf of Mexico. Text above reads 'Gulf oil spill trio shine at Congress hearing..' The first man represents BP chief executive Tony Hayward, the second is Halliburton Chief Executive David J. Lesar and the third is Steven Newman who represents Transocean Ltd. Each man blames the others - the Halliburton CEO saying 'It was his fault'. Refers to the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that started when a rig sank on 20th April 2010 and that continues to spew from a well that is proving difficult to block and that is threatening wild life, the fishing industry and a huge length of coastline. BP is legally and financially responsible for the spill but Houston-based Halliburton Co., the giant energy services company, was responsible for cementing the drill into place below the water. The company acknowledged that it had completed the final cementing of the oil well and pipe just 20 hours before the blowout last week. More than two dozen class action lawsuits have been filed after the explosion against BP PLC the British company that leased the Deepwater Horizon rig, against the rig's owner, Transocean Ltd. and against Halliburton. A 2007 study by the U.S. Minerals Management Service found that cementing was the single most important factor in 18 of 39 well blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico over a 14-year period -- more than equipment malfunction. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0014716

Description: The cartoon shows American President Obama and his wife Michelle having breakfast and chatting about current problems. Obama tells his wife that he thinks he is getting on top of the Gulf problem by shortening his backswing. Refers to the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that President Obama is endeavouring to have BP take proper responsibilty for. The cartoon suggests that he is tackling the problem more vigourously. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0014296

Description: The cartoon shows God and several angels in heaven. One of the angels peers down through the clouds and reports to God that there is a frightful mess down in the Gulf of Mexico. God replies that he wouldn't have bothered making birds, fish and animals if he had known how man was going to turn out. Refers to the terrible oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is threatening to ruin huge stretches of coastline and is killing marine life. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0014378

Description: A group of seagulls chat about having escaped the oil spill in Louisiana only to run into the ash from Iceland's volcano. A radio broadcasts the news about the volcanic ash. Refers to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is devastating a 60 mile length of coastline. Refers also to the ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0014278

Description: The eyes alone of two fish gleam out of the dark. They realise that it is either a solar eclipse or an oil spill. Text above rteads 'A fishy tale from the Gulf of Mexico'. Refers to the catastrophic oil leak which threatens wide areas of commercially and environmentally important shoreline in the southeastern United States. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Brockie, Robert Ellison, 1932- :Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014774

Description: The cartoon shows BP oil engineers playing a Bingo game at a booth called an 'Arcade Candy Grabber'. Refers to the struggle to find solutions to stem the continuing gushing of the Gulf of Mexico oil well spill. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0014915

Description: The first cartoon shows an arm representing 'BP' (British Petroleum) holding a piece of paper covered with scrawled notes about how to manage the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Text above reads 'Cartoonist reveals game plan'. A second version has slightly different wording in the plan. In another group of 3 cartoons an arm representing the 'Wallabies' is shown and there are notes about rugby. Again there is text above that reads 'Cartoonist reveals game plan. A second version is an even simpler 'Wallabies' game plan and a third version simply has the words 'Get Carter' written on the paper. Five versions of this cartoon are available Quantity: 5 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Webb, Murray, 1947- :Digital caricatures

Reference: DCDL-0014761

Description: Caricature of Carl-Henric Svanberg, Swedish businessman and current Chairman of BP, chairman during the time of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

Reference: DCDL-0014489

Description: The cartoon shows a planning room in the BP offices. On the wall is a notice reading 'Oil spill planning Room'. A number of BP staff sit at desks working on plans and on the wall is a list of plans ranging from 'Plan A' to 'Plan G' and on to even more plans. One of the men comments that they will be sweating by the time they get to plan 26. Refers to the reapeated failed efforts to deal with both stopping the oil spilling and cleaning up the contaminated sea and coastline after the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on 20th April 2010. News today suggests that the well will not be properly stopped until August. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0014548

Description: The cartoon shows a madman who represents the 'World's lust for oil' desperately demanding a 'fix'. Above him hangs a huge seal that someone offscreen yells to have lowered as they have 'located the source'. Empty oil barrels lie around. Text at the top of the cartoon reads 'The answer to the world's oil problems?' Refers to the efforts to bung the well that is spewing oil Into the Gulf of Mexico after a disastrous oil spill that began 20th May 2010. BP is considered responsible but Houston-based Halliburton Co., the giant energy services company, was responsible for cementing the drill into place below the water and cementing was the single most important factor in 18 of 39 well blowouts in the Gulf of Mexico over a 14-year period. The cartoon suggests that killing off the world's lust for oil might be the answer to the world's oil problems. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).