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Capping BP Well Would Be Just 'End of the Beginning'
By Laura Parker - AOL News(July 13) -- If BP's latest effort to stanch its runaway well succeeds, and the newly installed cap passes an "integrity test" this week, it will be the most promising news to come out of the Gulf of Mexico in 85 days. The 150,000-pound cap, fitted snugly atop the reconfigured blowout preventer Monday night, now must survive a test to see if it can withstand the pressure of the gushing oil. If pressure measurements remain high, between 8,000 and 9,000 pounds per square inch, that will tell BP's engineers that the cap can contain the oil. They can then move to "shut in" the well, meaning they ...
Gulf Oil Spill: Flow May Be 14 Times Greater Than First Thought
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe government initially estimated that 5,000 barrels of oil per day are pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP well that exploded April 20. That number came -- hastily -- from government scientists in Seattle, and quickly filtered through the media. Now, independent teams of analysts are using other technologies to calculate the size of the spill, and concluding that the government estimate is way off. In an analysis for NPR, Steven Wereley of Purdue University used particle image velocimetry, a scanning technology used to determine volume and movement of fluid. Wereley analyzed a video ...
BP, Halliburton Execs Refuse Oil Spill Blame at Senate Hearing
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyExecutives from BP, Transocean and Halliburton appeared at a Senate hearing Tuesday to testify about their companies' roles in the catastrophic oil spill still ongoing in the Gulf of Mexico. But each took pains to deflect blame for explosion that compromised the Deepwater Horizon oil well and the disastrous gush of oil from the well that has followed. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, blasted the testimony and said the executives were more concerned with avoiding legal responsibility for their companies than getting to the true cause ...
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