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BP Turns Focus to Marine Cap After 'Top Kill' Fails

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Oil Spill

BP PLC expects to connect a marine cap to contain a spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico in about four days, the company's chief executive told staff Monday. In an email, Tony Hayward said: "The LMRP [lower marine riser package] cap is already on site and it is currently anticipated that it will be con...

"This scares everybody, the fact that we can't stop this well,"

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Oil Spill

This scares everybody, the fact that we can't stop this well," - BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles, May 29, 2010: More oil-spill responders hospitalized and exposure information gaps persist by Elizabeth Grossman As of Saturday afternoon, May 29th, ten oil spill clean-up workers had ...

Sink to Obama: Take charge of oil cleanup

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 25 May 2010 in Oil Spill

Florida’s chief financial officer is asking the Obama administration to stop waiting for BP PLC to stop the oil from spilling into the Gulf of Mexico and start taking matters into its own hands. “For too long, we have relied on BP and its contractors to staunch the flow of oil, and they have failed ...

U.S. will "push" out BP if spill response falls short

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 22 May 2010 in Oil Spill

"If we find they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing, we'll push them out of the way appropriately," Salazar said, but he did not specify at what point this would occur or what might be the trigger for it. "This is an existential crisis for one of the world's largest companies," ...

Why BP Won't Measure the Oil Spill

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 22 May 2010 in Oil Spill

By Nicole Allan In the latest sci-fi development from the Gulf oil spill, scientists have found enormous oil "plumes" beneath the ocean's surface. With this, and last week's underwater footage of oil and natural gas gushing out of the ruptured well, it's apparent that BP's estimate of the amount of...

Gulf Oil Threat to Florida Waning Fast

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 19 May 2010 in Oil Spill

No one is lowering their guard just yet, but the chances are diminishing that significant amounts of oil from the ongoing Deepwater Horizon spill will soon make it to southern Florida. In part, it is the behavior of the Gulf of Mexico's increasingly infamous Loop Current that could lower the...

Gulf Oil Spill. Did We Learn Anything?

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 13 May 2010 in Oil Spill

The Deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010 is rapidly moving towards the status of the worst accident in U.S. history, and as the disaster moves into its third week a lot of questions are still unanswered, the most obvious being, when is this thing going to stop spewing? If current estimates fo...

Pressure Mounts on BP as Obama pushes for "Next Steps"

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 13 May 2010 in Oil Spill

(Reuters) - Political pressure mounted on Friday for BP to show progress plugging a massive oil leak while residents of coastal Florida, Mississippi and Alabama learned the growing pool of oil from the leak would not strike their beaches until late on Saturday. The drifting sea of oil could...

Oil Spill Gulf of Mexico 2010: BP takes full responsibility for oil cleanup

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 13 May 2010 in Oil Spill

BP said that company assumes full responsibility for the spill that threatens U.S southern coastal area. The company will pay all costs necessary and appropriate cleaning, plus fines and compensation, said BP on its website. Obama toured the affected area and said “BP is responsible for the leak. B...

Size of Oil Spill Underestimated, Scientists Say

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 in Oil Spill

Two weeks ago, the government put out a round estimate of the size of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico: 5,000 barrels a day. Repeated endlessly in news reports, it has become conventional wisdom. But scientists and environmental groups are raising sharp questions about that estimate, declaring th...

Gulf oyster, shrimp and crab supplies dwindle and prices rise

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 in Oil Spill

Reporting from New Orleans and Los Angeles As the Louisiana sun beat down on the Westwego Seafood Market, the aisles were as empty as the coolers. Fish hawkers paced alongside sparsely filled counters dotted with shrimp and crabs, calling out in strained voices to the few customers strolling by. Ma...

Gulf oil spill: Alaska senator blocks move to raise oil spill liability

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 in Oil Spill

May 13, 2010 | 4:34 pm A week ago, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) teamed up with her Democratic senatorial counterpart, Mark Begich, to introduce a bill that would raise the [Correction: liability trust fund for] economic damages from oil spills to $10 billion. On Thursday, she blocked...

The lasting effects of oil spills

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 10 May 2010 in Oil Spill

As engineers try to cap British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon blowout off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists fear the thick, crude oil that is seeping into the gulf at a rate of nearly 210,000 gallons a day will become an environmental catastrophe of unknown proportions to wetl...