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Oil Spill Cleanup Halted as Storm Approaches
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 23) -- Work at the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster had come to a standstill before the storm slammed into the Florida coast today with 40 mph winds, sparking fears that the cap may not hold in the storm. The oil company halted drilling on a relief well that's burrowed within 5 feet of the undersea source of America's worst-ever oil spill Thursday as Bonnie swirled toward the site. Oil rigs were evacuated and cleanup vessels pulled out. "We're all in agreement that we need to put this equipment where it can be best maintained and safe for following use," Coast Guard Adm. Thad ...
BP Races to Stanch Oil Spill as Bad Weather Threatens
By not in system - AOL News(July 21) -- Bad weather could force BP to delay efforts to plug the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and reopen the oil well after a week of it being contained. Retired U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the spill, told The Associated Press that a storm system approaching from the Caribbean could force BP to interrupt its watch over the cap for as long as four days. If so, the well might have to be reopened in order not to miss signs that the cap is buckling under the pressure of the well. "This is necessarily going to be a judgment call," Allen said. The ...
BP Relief Well Races Toward Oil Source
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 21) -- Keeping an eye on rising pressure levels under its capped-but-leaking oil well, BP is racing to burrow deep under the seabed to staunch the oil's flow at its source -- where a nearby relief well could reach by this weekend. But as BP nears the final stretch toward permanently plugging its runaway well, fears are mounting over any missteps that could possibly cause catastrophe after three months of failed attempts. In a letter to BP, Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., expressed concern Tuesday about the continued risks of keeping a 150,000-pound cap affixed to the blown-out well as ...
Seep Detected Near BP Well: What Could It Mean for Oil Spill Capping Efforts?
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 19) -- A mysterious seep detected near the BP well has the government on edge and investors nervous: It could indicate that the Macondo well is damaged in places other than the well head, causing additional oil and gas leaks. The government has allowed the new containment cap to stay on today as tests continue, but BP shares fell 2.6 percent because of the news. Surge Desk answers the three most important questions about the seep and gives you the latest on the oil spill in the gulf. 1. What's a seep? A seep, as defined in this context, is a stream of hydrocarbons flowing from the ...
Obama Cautiously Optimistic After Oil Spill Fix
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 16) -- President Barack Obama is cautiously optimistic about the BP oil spill now that the runaway well has finally stopped flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, but he says the effort to kill BP's gusher is far from over. "We're moving in the right direction, but I don't want us to get too far ahead of ourselves," Obama told reporters at the White House this morning. News on Thursday that the broken well had finally stopped spewing thousands of barrels of crude into the gulf led many to hope that significant progress had been made toward ending the worst environmental disaster in U.S. ...
Gulf Oil Spill Update: This Is What Good News Looks Like [PHOTOS]
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 15) -- The good -- scratch that -- great news is that the BP oil spill has been temporarily contained. The trouble is, nobody knows for how long. BP is running pressure tests on its new cap to ensure that it is safe and sound, and it's expected to make an announcement on the status of the assembly at approximately 6:30 p.m. CDT. Until then, we at Surge Desk thought it would be nice to enjoy the first view of clean, clear blue water surrounding the Macondo well -- so we took some screen shots to that effect. (Not to be a Debbie Downer, but you never know what could happen next, so ...
BP Cap Update: Leak Fixed! Testing Begins Soon! But...
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 15) -- Here was BP's rough plan to contain the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico as of the end of last week: 1. Remove the containment cap that had been directing the leaking crude through pipes onto ships on the surface, thus temporarily allowing oil to resume gushing into the ocean. 2. Replace it with a new, tighter containment cap that would allow nearly all the oil to be collected. 3. Close three valves on the new cap, thus stopping the flow of oil. 4. Measure the pressure in the well to ensure that everything was working correctly and that there wouldn't be an explosion or ...
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 ...
BP Happy With New Oil Leak Effort, but No Promises
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS (July 11) -- Underpromising with hopes of overdelivering, BP said Sunday that it is making progress on what could prove its most effective effort yet to contain the Gulf oil leak, but cautioned that the verdict could be several days away. A new cap being placed atop the gusher is intended to provide a tight seal and might eventually allow the oil giant to capture all the crude leaking from the well for the first time since an April 20 oil rig explosion set off the environmental crisis. But several prior failed attempts to stop the leak have made BP PLC careful to keep expectations ...
For Now, Oil Spews Unchecked in Gulf
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW ORLEANS (July 11) -- Hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil are being allowed to spew into the fouled waters of the Gulf of Mexico while BP engineers prepare to install a new containment system they hope will catch it all in the coming days. There's no guarantee for such a delicate operation nearly a mile below the water's surface, officials said, and the permanent fix of plugging the well from the bottom remains slated for mid-August. "It's not just going to be, you put the cap on, it's done. It's not like putting a cap on a tube of toothpaste," Coast Guard spokesman Capt. James ...
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