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The 4 Big Things BP Left Out of Its Spill Report
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsANALYSIS (Sept. 9) -- So the world now knows what's in BP's much-publicized internal report on what happened on the Deepwater Horizon rig. But what's not in the document? Quite a bit. The report lays out in 193 pages, with a full complement of appendices, eight factors that BP says converged to cause the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It is a virtual compendium of failures and safety lapses, including some by BP itself, and includes a minute-by-minute account of events leading to the two large explosions that ultimately sent more than 5 million barrels of oil into the gulf waters and cost 11 ...
BP Says Failed Blowout Preventer Removed From Well
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS (Sept. 3) - BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was removed from the company's well on Friday afternoon. A BP spokesman said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the 50-foot, 300-ton device was detached from the wellhead at 1:20 p.m CDT. The device was expected to be slowly lifted to the surface and likely wouldn't reach the top until sometime Saturday. Earlier in the day, a vessel had latched onto the equipment to raise it from a mile beneath the sea. Undersea video showed the device suspended in the water. A ...
Risk of Leak Remains as BP Prepares to Lift Well Cap
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Sept. 2) -- BP plans to carefully remove the cap from its crippled oil well today in preparation for a procedure it hopes will plug the massive leak in the Gulf of Mexico once and for all. That procedure, known as "bottom kill," has been cited by the government as the only solution to stopping the oil for good. But the final steps to permanently seal the well are not without risks. Before the bottom kill can be attempted, engineers must remove the cap from the wellhead, replace the blowout preventer that failed to stop the April 20 explosion and hope that no oil escapes in the process. BP ...
Report: Oil Rig Workers Scared to Report Safety Problems
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 22) -- A secret survey conducted aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig in the weeks before it exploded reveals that workers had safety concerns but feared punishment if they reported any problems, The New York Times reports. The rig's owner, Transocean Ltd., commissioned the survey in the weeks before the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers and triggered America's worst ever oil spill. Workers said they "often saw unsafe behaviors on the rig" and believed the company prioritized drilling at the expense of planned maintenance. "Run it, break it, fix it," one worker was quoted as ...
2 Ways Obama's New Drilling Moratorium Is Different Than the Old One
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 12) -- Today, as BP continued work on a second oil spill cap to try to plug the Deepwater Horizon well, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced that the Obama administration is issuing a new, improved moratorium on offshore drilling that will extend until Nov. 30. The move comes one week after a New Orleans federal appeals judge rejected the administration's attempt to impose a wholesale six-month halt to deep-sea drilling off U.S. shores pending a thorough review of safety standards, the Times-Picayune reported. That temporary ban would have shut down production on 33 deepwater oil ...
Tyrone Benton: We Told BP About Faulty Safety Part
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn an interview with the BBC, a BP employee leveled an explosive claim Monday: that he and other Deepwater Horizon rig workers discovered a leak in the well's blowout preventer weeks before the fateful accident that sank the platform, killing 11 and causing oil to begin leaking into the gulf in the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Stationed on the Deepwater Horizon rig as a subcontractor before it exploded on April 20, Tyrone Benton is suing BP for negligence, in part because he believes the company did not properly respond when it learned that the blowout preventer was leaking. ...
Report: Oil Worker Spotted Leak Weeks Before Explosion
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(June 21) -- An oil worker who survived the Deepwater Horizon explosion has claimed that he found a fault in a key piece of safety equipment weeks before the disaster, according to a British television report. Tyrone Benton told the BBC's Panorama program -- due to be broadcast tonight -- that he had spotted a leak on the rig's most crucial piece of safety equipment, the blowout preventer. That device uses a pair of giant shears to cut off and seal the well's main pipe if an accident occurs. However, several weeks before the April 20 blast that killed 11 people, Benton said a problem was ...
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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