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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Will Tony Hayward get his wish?
Latest BP cap attempt “on hold.”
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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Gulf Oil Spill Update : Hayward out, Dudley and Willis in as American faces of BP.
A day after British Petroleum CEO Tony Hayward deftly defied, dodged, and deflected Congressional inquirers, speaking much and saying little to representatives and the media in a five-hour grilling on Capitol Hill, company spokesmen announced that Robert Dudley will take-over day-to-day management of the environmental and economic cataclysm in the Gulf. Dudley, a BP...
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BP’s make-or-break moment in the Gulf
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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BP still struggling to cap undersea gushers
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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Expert Report: “BP was reckless, negligent” in Gulf oil spill
BP’s monumental oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico calls attention to its lack of sophisticated technology for managing oil-rig malfunctions says a report issued Monday. In the first of what pundits and the press believe will be a series of scathing reports from a host of environmental protection groups, Dr. Bruce Keitel, Director...
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