Category Archives: Oil leak
Indonesia seeks $2.5b oil spill payout
By Kerri Ritchie ABC News Reports from Indonesia say the government will seek $2.5 billion in compensation from an Australian-based exploration company, which was responsible for an oil spill in the Timor Sea last year. The Montara well leaked uncontrollably for more than 70 days, destroying fish stocks in Indonesian territory.
Three of every four oil and gas lobbyists worked for federal government
By Dan Eggen and Kimberly Kindy Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 22, 2010 Three out of every four lobbyists who represent oil and gas companies previously worked in the federal government, a proportion that far exceeds the usual revolving-door standards on Capitol Hill, a Washington Post analysis shows. This Story Most in oil, gas [...]
BP Removes Cap From Well, Aiming for a Tighter Fit
By Henry Fountain NEW ORLEANS — Technicians removed a containment cap atop BP’s out-of-control well in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, beginning an ambitious engineering effort that could fully contain the huge oil leak but will also make matters worse, at least temporarily.
Obama vows massive Gulf response
by BBC News US President Barack Obama has called on his party and supporters to back a “new future” of clean energy. Visiting areas affected by the BP oil spill, he said the full resources of government were being deployed, with 17,500 National Guard troops available.
US Adm Thad Allen says oil clean-up ‘will be years’
BBC News US Coast Guard chief Thad Allen has warned that cleaning up marshlands and other habitats affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will take years. Adm Allen also said oil giant BP needed to do better at getting money to people and businesses affected by the spill. An estimated 11,000 barrels of [...]
Device captures leaking oil in Gulf
AFP A CONTAINMENT device placed over a leaking oil well pipe in the Gulf of Mexico has captured 6000 barrels of crude, and the amount contained will “hopefully” increase soon, a US official said.
Gulf spill trickier than Valdez and Three Mile Island
by Braden Reddall and Peter Henderson (Reuters) – “Gulf spill” has already been seared into popular consciousness along with “Three Mile Island” and “Valdez,” even if the long-term impact of the latest disaster in America’s energy sector is still unclear. The 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska changed the way parts of the oil industry [...]
US oil nightmare could drag on to August
By Lisa Millar A senior White House adviser says the blown-out wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico could continue to spew oil into the ocean until August. Carol Browner, the president’s adviser on energy and climate, says the oil spill is the country’s biggest environmental disaster. BP’s latest attempt to stem the leak, [...]
BP Tries to Shift Blame to Transocean
By RUSSELL GOLD And GUY CHAZAN HOUSTON—BP PLC has stepped up efforts to shift the blame for the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico onto rig owner Transocean Ltd., as the relationship between these longtime business partners continued to sour. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, two BP executives who declined [...]
BP concedes Gulf oil spill is bigger than estimate
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and GREG BLUESTEIN (AP) NEW ORLEANS — BP conceded Thursday that more oil than it estimated is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico as heavy crude washed into Louisiana’s wetlands for the first time, feeding worries and uncertainty about the massive monthlong spill. Mark Proegler, a spokesman for oil giant BP PLC, [...]
Scientists find vast unreported oil leak from Deepwater Horizon
by Anne Barrowclough A plume of oil 10 miles long and three miles wide is pouring into the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The plume is one of a number that scientists have found gushing into the sea a mile underwater, increasing concerns that the size [...]
