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How Much Oil Really Remains in the Gulf?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Aug. 19) -- How much oil is still left in the gulf after the worst accidental oil spill in world history was finally stopped last month by the "static kill" procedure? That depends on who you ask. After the leak was stopped on July 15, the Associated Press reported that 184 million gallons had spilled. PBS presently lists 190 million gallons. At a contentious recess hearing today on Capitol Hill, an outraged Rep. Ed Markey (D- Mass.) lashed out at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's earlier, rosier estimate that 70 percent of the oil had been removed by humans and ...
UPDATE: Tropical Storm Bonnie Bears Down on Southern Florida
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 23) -- UPDATE, 2 p.m. EDT: Tropical Storm Bonnie is becoming less organized as it moves northwest over southern Florida and is not expected to become a hurricane. Tropical Storm Bonnie is on a crash course with the Gulf of Mexico and has already affected the oil spill containment and cleanup efforts. Surge Desk has answers to the five most important questions about the storm and its track. 1. Where is Tropical Storm Bonnie right now? As of 2 p.m. EDT, Tropical Storm Bonnie was 55 miles southeast of Naples, Fla. and 75 miles southeast of Fort Myers, Fla. Powered by storm-tracking ...
Can Oil Skimmed From the Gulf Wind Up in Your Gas Tank?
By Doug Simpson - AOL NewsBATON ROUGE, La. (July 16) -- With a new cap on BP's broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil-spill crisis may be at a turning point, raising questions about oil that's already been spilled and the company's next steps. Here are some questions and answers: Will oil start spilling again? It's too early to know. A cap has been in place for about a day and has halted the flow of oil into the gulf. But BP senior vice president Kent Wells told reporters this morning that the company might resume funneling oil from the well to tanker ships on the gulf's surface -- a move that would require ...
Update: Is the Oil Spill Cap Working? [Live Video]
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 13) -- Across the country, Americans are anxiously awaiting the moment when they can see with their own eyes that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill has finally, conclusively been stopped. With live video feeds from 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico focused on the Top Hat 10, BP's new and supposedly improved cap, it is hard not to notice that a column of oil continues to flow freely into the water. As the company is still in the process of slowly shutting down a series of valves, even if the cap proves effective that flowing oil could remain visible for some time to ...
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 ...
More Than 27,000 Abandoned Wells in Gulf
By not in system - AOL News(July 7) -- More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one - not industry, not government - is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows. The oldest of these wells were abandoned in the late 1940s, raising the prospect that many deteriorating sealing jobs are already failing. The AP investigation uncovered particular concern with 3,500 of the neglected wells - those characterized in federal government records as "temporarily abandoned." ...
BP Restores Cap on Leaking Undersea Gulf Well
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(June 24) -- BP has once again capped its leaking oil well a mile under water, after an undersea robot bashed a vent and sparked safety concerns about flammable gases that prompted engineers to remove the cap and let oil gush into the Gulf of Mexico unabated for more than 10 hours. The cap was refitted late Wednesday on the eighth try, after 90 minutes during which engineers wrestled with remote-controlled robots tangled in undersea hoses. The cap, fitted three weeks ago, is siphoning oil up into the Discoverer Enterprise, a tanker floating on the surface above. While the cap was off, live ...
BP Agrees to Speed Up Payments to Gulf Victims
By not in system - AOL NewsGRAND ISLE, La. (June 10) -- BP said Thursday it plans to boost its ability to capture the oil gushing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico by early next week as the Obama administration announced that the oil giant agreed to speed up payments to people whose livelihoods have been washed away by the spill. Fishermen, property owners and businesspeople who have filed damage claims with BP are angrily complaining of delays, excessive paperwork and skimpy payments that have put them on the verge of going under as the financial and environmental toll of the seven-week-old disaster ...
Gulf Oil Spill Update: BP Calls in the Big Boats
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyU.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen outlined BP's plans for containing the Gulf oil spill yesterday, and luckily for the overloaded Discoverer Enterprise (and the oil company, and its battered public image), there are three more ships coming to the rescue -- one of which will be equipped with an over-sized flamethrower. Below, a look at the containment operation's latest reinforcements: 1. Discoverer Enterprise. The drillship Discoverer Enterprise is at the center of the containment operation, collecting the oil contained by the cap on the gushing well. It's designed for drilling in extremely ...
Oil Spill Update: Is the Cap Working Too Well?
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyThe oil containment cap that BP installed on Friday may be working too well. The cap is already diverting between 10,000 and 15,000 barrels of oil to the Discoverer Enterprise, a ship floating above the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, but the boat can only handle 15,000 barrels a day. BP had planned to close four valves on the cap over the weekend, but decided to leave some of them open when they realized they could not handle the amount of oil that would be contained with the valves closed. The Enterprise has a maximum capacity of 139,000 barrels. This morning, U.S. Coast Guard Admiral ...
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