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4 Most Glaring Errors Cited by Obama's Oil Spill Panel
By Laura Parker - AOL News
(Oct. 7) -- Scientists describe the official response to BP's Gulf of Mexico oil disaster as a giant science experiment carried out in real time since it was the first in U.S. history involving a deep-water oil rig. Yet the preliminary assessment released this week by the Oil Spill Commission, which was appointed by President Barack Obama back in May, does not look kindly upon the makeshift efforts of government officials or the U.S. Coast Guard. In response, the Obama administration defended itself for having "significantly mitigated the impact of the spill" by using all available ...
BP Says Payouts Endangered if Barred From Drilling in Gulf
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 3) -- BP (BP) warned that any legislation that stops it from drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico could prevent the oil giant from paying out compensation related to this year's oil spill. Congress is currently considering legislation that would bar any company from receiving offshore drilling permits if more than 10 fatalities had occurred at its offshore or onshore facilities, The New York Times reported. The bill also forbids permits to companies that have paid fines of $10 million or more under the Clean Air or Clean Water acts over a seven-year period. See full article from ...
Corexit: 5 Questions About Chemical Dispersant Answered
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- BP's runaway well is close to being officially killed for good, but that doesn't mean the problem it created will be solved. The nation's worst oil spill will continue to cause issues for a long time to come. One of those issues might stem from the inordinate amount of chemical dispersant, called Corexit, that was pumped into the Gulf of Mexico at the start of the disaster. Today, the FDA and NOAA announced they would begin testing the gulf seafood supply for dispersants after concerns about their safety raised by residents, scientists and environmentalists. Just what is ...
Drilling on Relief Wells to Continue: 4 Questions Answered
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- BP oil spill incident commander Thad Allen announced this afternoon that the relief wells at the Macondo well site will be finished after all. There had been debate over whether or not to proceed after the static kill operation appeared to have succeeded in plugging the leak last week. Below, Surge Desk answers four questions about the state of the BP oil spill kill operations. 1. Has the well been plugged? It has been plugged, but not completely. 2. Did the static kill work? The static kill successfully lodged a cement plug in the well, but today's tests showed that pressure ...
BP Says It May Drill Again in Gulf Spill Reservoir
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS (Aug. 6) -- BP PLC said today it might someday drill again into the same lucrative undersea pocket of oil that spilled millions of gallons of crude, wrecked livelihoods and fouled beaches along the Gulf of Mexico. "There's lots of oil and gas here," Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said at a news briefing. "We're going to have to think about what to do with that at some point." The vast oil reservoir beneath the blown well is still believed to hold nearly $4 billion worth of crude. With the company and its partners facing tens of billions of dollars in liabilities, the ...
BP Begins Pumping Cement Into Busted Gulf Well
By not in system - AOL News10:31 AM ET Update: BP says it is pumping cement down blow-out Gulf well in effort to finish 'static kill' (AP) NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 5) -- BP planned to start pumping cement into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, following up on a key development in the effort to kill the well when mud that was shoved in successfully held back the flow of crude. After a series of unsuccessful attempts to stem the flow of oil a mile underwater, the tide appeared to be turning in the months-long battle to stop the massive oil spill. BP PLC said Wednesday it was finally able to force the ...
Why Would BP Photoshop Its Crisis Command Center?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 20) -- BP's public image problems took a turn for the weirder on Monday, with AMERICAblog's John Aravosis exposing a poorly doctored photo of the company's crisis command center in Houston that had been posted to the official crisis response website. The company has now come clean (sort of) to The Washington Post -- claiming this morning that it was the photographer who snapped the image who was responsible for inserting three extra video screens into a bank of monitors. It still remains unclear, though, precisely why the alterations were even made in the first place. Check out the ...
Tests on New Gulf Oil Well Cap Delayed
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 13) -- A new cap affixed to its blown-out well, BP started running tests today to see whether it can halt the flow of America's worst-ever oil spill for the first time since the disaster began off Louisiana's coast 84 days ago. But the British oil giant then delayed the tests after government officials said more analysis was required on the strategy, according to The Associated Press. The tests involve slowly shutting three giant valves on the cap, an 18-foot-high, 150,000-pound stack of metal pipes and valves lowered into place Monday. No pressure test results were in yet, but readings ...
BP's New Gulf Oil Spill Cap: What's Different This Time?
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 9) -- Three months and some 86 million gallons of crude later, the Gulf oil spill is finally on the verge of being contained, according to statements today from U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, reports The Associated Press. "Technically it's pretty achievable," Allen said, although he also cautioned that there is a big difference between containing the leak --i.e., collecting all the leaking oil as it is released from the well but before it enters the Gulf -- and actually stopping it entirely, which will not happen until the drilling of two additional relief wells is ...
BP Moves Up Date for Capping Busted Oil Well
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 8) -- BP is under mounting pressure from the White House to stop the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, and hopes to completely shut off flow by later this month -- weeks earlier than the company's previous public forecasts. The White House is sending BP a series of written questions about its attempts to cap the well and has demanded that the company respond within 24 hours, Reuters reports. The head of BP's Gulf Coast restoration unit, Managing Director Bob Dudley, told The Wall Street Journal that "it's possible to be ready to stop the well between July 20 and July 27." But ...
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