Study: Change method to assess gulf oil spill Sarasota Herald-Tribune The report aims to help officials create the best plan for restoring the Gulf and compensating the public for irreparable damage. BP will have to pay the bill. "There is no previous case quite like the Gulf oil spill," said Stephen Polasky, … Post-spill U.S. oil, gas auction scheduledUPI.com Offshore lease sale set for DecemberCBS News RIDM 2011: Film on Gulf Oil Spill is clumsy and disappointingMontreal Gazette (blog) MarineLink –Center for Biological Diversity (press release) –Houston Chronicle (blog) all 484 news articles »
BP intends to try yet another method to stop the underwater oil gushing in the gulf. News commentators speculate on “top kill” and its potential effectiveness.
Oil companies CEO’S pass the buck for big spill www.msnbc.msn.com At Senate hearing companies involved in the Gulf oil disaster — BP, Transocean and Halliburton why it happened : Must SEE www.youtube.com tags: oil spill drill baby drill Louisiana Texas Florida bp dick cheny …
The US Government says it won’t take over oil clean-up operations in the Gulf of Mexico from BP. Washington had criticised the oil giant for being too slow in its crisis management efforts. BP is pinning its hopes of stopping the gusher on yet another technique never tested 1500 metres underwater: a ‘top kill’ in which heavy mud and cement would be shot into the blown-out well to plug it up. At least 23 million litres of crude oil have spewed into the Gulf, according to a Coast Guard and BP, though some scientists say they believe the spill has already surpassed the 42 million litre 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska as the worst in US history. Join The Illuminati (Msg Me). SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL. Copyright: www.youtube.com Video Rating: 5 / 5
‘Top kill’ method suffers setback in Gulf
The mobile offshore drilling unit Q4000 sits directly above the damaged Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer while crews attempt a technique known as “top kill,” to try and plug the wellhead on Wednesday in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more on St. Louis Post-Dispatch
After five weeks of failing to plug a well spewing oil in the Gulf of Mexico, British oil giant BP has launched its latest attempt, pumping mud to try to smother the gusher — the so-called “top kill” method. The governor of the US state of Louisiana says more than 160km of the state’s fragile coastland has already been affected by the millions of litres of oil that have gushed out in the last five weeks. Al Jazeera’s John Terrett reports from Venice, Louisiana. (May 27, 2010) Video Rating: 4 / 5
BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Oil Well Before Blast
Days before the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, BP officials chose a type of casing that it knew was the riskier of two options, a BP document showed. Read more on International Herald Tribune
Scientist proposes method to quantify Gulf oil spill
While the world has reacted with shock and anger to the massive amounts of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon platform blowout, a UC Santa Barbara scientist has proposed that methane gas dissolved into the waters of the Gulf holds the key to calculating the magnitude of the spill. Read more on PhysOrg
Documents show BP chose a less-expensive, less-reliable method for completing well in Gulf oil spill
Oil company BP used a cheaper, quicker but potentially less dependable method to complete the drilling of the Deepwater Horizon well, according to several experts and documents obtained by the Orlando Sentinel . Read more on Chicago Tribune
Loading ...