Posts Tagged ‘ BP ’

For the last week, Tropical Depression Number Five, not quite a hurricane but definitely a menace, has halted drilling on the relief wells that ultimately will seal Deepwater Horizon, ending history’s worst environmental catastrophe. As the tropical storm moved ashore and Gulf of Mexico weather improved over the weekend, BP officials announced they would...
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Gulf residents remain skeptical about BP’s long-term commitment. After extensive weekend testing, BP and government officials reported Monday that the mud and concrete poured into the top of Deepwater Horizon have effectively sealed the top of the well. Further testing confirms that the two relief wells are on target to join the main borehole...
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Just a week into the history’s greatest environmental disaster, British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward opined that the recovery would not take long, saying “I’m eager to get my life back”—an expression that rocked the Gulf Coast almost as hard as the spill itself. This week, BP’s Board of Directors probably will grant his wish....
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BP has installed a new, better-fitting cap on the runaway Gulf oil well, equipping it with vents and outlet links that will enable either complete stoppage or “producing the oil”—attaching pipes to collection ships that can handle more than the well spills each day. Retired Coast Guard admiral Thad Allen, commandant of the oil...
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Now in its thirty-seventh day, the history-making, environment-ravaging, frustration-testing, technology-busting oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues unabated. After thirty-seven days of testing, measuring, calculating, and analyzing, no scientist, engineer, ecologist, environmentalist, mathematician, investigative reporter, or concerned citizen can render an accurate estimate of how much light sweet crude flows into the pristine...
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Late Saturday, British Petroleum’s much ballyhooed experiment with a four-storey 80,000 ton containment box went into the record books as an epic fail.  After nearly twenty-four hours of painstakingly precise maneuvering to locate the massive concrete cap exactly where experts said it would have the greatest impact, BP engineers secured the box right on...
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Even when the world’s premier social networking site is not announcing plans for further conquest of cyberspace, Facebook continues to garner headlines.  Facebook’s privacy issues continue to command page-one play, and stories about the site’s speed-of-light expansion continue to garner thousands of column inches in the traditional media and on the internet. Grossly ill-timed...
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