Posts Tagged ‘oil rig’
Coast Guard's Allen, in charge of Gulf spill clean-up, leaves post
nAllen handed oversight of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill response to Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft after coordinating the government's effort since the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. nAllen had already been set to retire from the Coast Guard in the spring, but agreed to stay on to manage the oil crisis. The government battled for [...]
BP Oil Spill Artwork – Deepwater Horizon Artistic Response – Esquire
There was no beauty in the oil rig's explosion. Nor in the deaths of eleven men, and the torrent of crude oil that gushed into the Atlantic. But catastrophe often inspires culture. In the weeks and months that followed, an international cadre of artists (and pranksters) skewered BP in city streets and pristine white walls of gallery spaces. Some [...]
NIH to launch Gulf oil spill health study | The AroundFortWayne Blog
NIH to launch Gulf oil spill health studyBP will provide additional funds for researchThe National Institutes of Health will launch a multi-year study this fall to look at the potential health effects from the oil spill in the Gulf region. The Gulf Worker Study, announced by NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., in June, is in response to [...]
BP Admits Fault In Oil Spill; Engineer Error Caused Disaster …
BP has accepted some of the blame for the deadly rig disaster that led to the worst oil spill in United States history, according to a new report.An internal investigation reveals that the oil giant's own engineers misread data that contributed to the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, a source familiar with BP's probe told Bloomberg News.As [...]
Tons of Garbage from Oil Spill Cleanup Heads to Already-Troubled …
Tons of oil-soaked trash from the massive Gulf Coast oil spill is heading to the region’s landfills, including some already contending with environmental concerns, The Associated Press reports.So far, workers have transported about 50,000 tons of oily debris and boom to nine Gulf Coast area landfills, amounting to 7 percent of the waste they [...]
King holding BP's feet to the fire
Claiming that every day of delay strengthens BP and weakens Alabama’s ability to recover losses from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster, state Attorney General Troy King announced this week that he’s suing the oil giant, citing a pattern of broken promises about accepting responsibility for the Gulf oil spill.As has become typical for [...]
Critical alarm system switched off before oil spill | TopNews …
The most shocking news that has come up claims that BP knew about the Deepwater Horizon oil rig's safety concerns that occurred a year ago. The reports claims that the "critical alarm system" but many of the sources state that bad things were intentionally planned that were planned just before the explosion that occurred. The rig's chief [...]
Shrimpers to shuckers feel tinge of hope as oil stops gushing
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- Dean Blanchard, a self-proclaimed king of shrimp, spent seven days a week running his Louisiana seafood empire. When the oil disaster shut everything down, he walked around in circles, feeling the powerlessness of a deposed monarch. For the first time in three months, BP has stopped the oil from gushing, and [...]
Gulf Oil Spill: The Stats : Guilty Planet
Who: BP, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig (owned by Transocean but leased to BP), and Haliburton (responsible for plugging holes in the pipeline).What: The largest offshore spill in U.S. history. The numbers are fuzzy but estimates are somewhere between 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil per day. Today is day 80 of the spill, which means somewhere [...]
Rare 1970s BP board game promises oil 'thrills' comes back to …
They were trouble-free times when oil barons were dining out with rich sheikhs and counting their profits.But little did they know their drilling exploits would come back to haunt them.Up to four would-be tycoons can compete at exploring for oil, building platforms and laying pipelines to their home countries.But BP Offshore Oil Strike players [...]
