Pin Itemailprint Anadarko Petroleum Corp will pay BP $4 billion toward clean-up of last year’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The settlement is much less than what BP might have won in a court battle, but the deal could reduce the overall cost of the disaster for the company. Under the terms of the [...]
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Uh oh. Are those mass animal deaths making a comeback? Not exactly, but this is unsettling nonetheless. It seems that dead baby bottlenose dolphins are washing up in record numbers in the Gulf of Mexico and no one knows exactly why. From February of last year to April 2011, 406 dolphins have been found either [...]
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Yes, you read that correctly. Transocean, the company that owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded in Gulf of Mexico last year causing one of the worst oil spills in our planet’s history, has given its top executives safety bonuses. The company gave execs credit for achieving the “best year in safety performance in [...]
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All is well in the Gulf, they say. The oil has almost totally disappeared, they say. Not so, according to those who live and work in and around the Gulf of Mexico. The fallout from the Deepwater Horizon explosion will take years, perhaps decades, to play out fully but this much is certain…people are sick [...]
Reports are beginning to come in that there is now a mile-long oil sheen spreading from the site of the Vermilion Oil Rig explosion. According to Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough, the oil sheen is about 100 feet wide and was spotted near the platform operated by Mariner Energy. Three firefighting vessels have already [...]
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UPDATE: 2:11 p.m. EDT – The Coast Guard reports that there is, in fact, a mile-long oil sheen spreading across the water from the site of the explosion. All 13 people aboard the rig were found floating in the water in survival gear. Has history repeated itself? Just four months after the devastating explosion of [...]
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It’s time for heads to roll, and it’s long overdue if you ask me. The U.S. has launched a civil and criminal probe into the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused by the April explosion of the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig, said Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday. “We will prosecute to the [...]
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BP CEO Tony Hayward has commented on the massive oil leak his company caused that has polluted the Gulf of Mexico to disastrous levels. In an interview that aired on FoxNews, Hayward says, “I would like my life back.” Nice. So would the eleven workers who died in the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil [...]
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Remember that “top kill” procedure BP was using to try and stop the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico? Nice try, but FAIL. A BP exec said today that the effort to contain the worst oil spill in U.S. history was unsuccessful and the company is now ready to consider other options for [...]
It’s time for BP to move in for the kill, but will it be successful? The oil giant is preparing to try and “choke” the oil gusher at the bottom of the sea by shooting drilling mud and cement into the mess, a procedure dubbed a “top kill”. This has been done successfully above ground [...]
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Well, that didn’t work. Officials attempting to lower a massive containment dome over a gushing underwater oil well in the Gulf of Mexico had to back off that option Friday night when hydrates built up inside the container. Hydrates are icelike crystals that are formed when gas combines with water. The dome has been placed [...]
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The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is becoming more and more severe by the minute. It all began with a massive oil rig explosion on April 20, 2010. The rig sank about two days later, 40 miles off the Mississippi River delta. British Petroleum Agency (BP) PLC, which owns the oil rig operated [...]
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