Oil Firms to Deploy New Containment Device for Deepwater Spills Wall Street Journal This improved version, Massey said, will operate from several bases along the Gulf Coast and be ready around mid-2012. As the government suspended deepwater drilling following the Gulf disaster, the oil industry needed to quickly take steps and prove … Emails expose BP's attempts to control research into impact of Gulf oil spillThe Guardian E-mails: BP tried to control spill probeUPI.com BP Oil Disaster at One Year: Making the Most of the Natural Resource Damage …Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Nieman Watchdog (blog) –Gather.com –American Free Press all 1,953 news articles »
New device tames wild wells Medill Reports: Chicago This effort is a response to last April's Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill that killed 11 people and released more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over 85 days. In a lecture Thursday at the Illinois Institute of … Deepwater Horizon Survivor Sues BPCourthouse News Service Deepwater Horizon BOP closed but did not halt flowExaminer.com Flaw in blowout preventer's gaskets suspectedHouston Chronicle Fort Worth Star Telegram (blog) –JD Supra (press release) –The Associated Press all 149 news articles »
Study of blowout preventer device delayed Dallas Morning News The 300-ton device that failed to stop the massive gulf oil spill – considered a key piece of evidence in the investigation into the disaster – has not been …
BP Raises Well-Safety Device Blamed For Gulf Oil Spill Eurasia Review British oil giant BP on Sunday said it had raised the failed well-safety system responsible for massive oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexcio and handed it …
Key device in Gulf spill didn't get recertified The Associated Press HOUSTON — A critical device at the center of an investigation into the Gulf oil rig explosion didn't undergo a rigorous recertification process in 2005 as … BP VP testifies before federal panelabc7.com
Actor Kevin Costner has been funding a team of scientists for 15 years in hopes of developing a technology to clean up massive oil spills, and his research has created a powerful centrifuge that he claims can separate oil from water and dump the oil into a holding tank. Costner and representatives of Ocean Therapy Solutions, the firm that developed the machine, demonstrated the centrifugal device for BP officials in New Orleans last week. “I believe they’ll want to do the right thing,” Costner told reporters at the time. “We’ve agreed to test it,” BP spokesman Mark Proegler told ABCNews.com today. Officials with Ocean Therapy Solutions have said one of their machines is capable of cleaning up to 210000 gallons of water per day. The oil extractor leaves the water 99 percent clean of crude, the firm said in a statement. “The machines are basically sophisticated centrifuge devices that can handle a huge volume of water and separate at unprecedented rates,” said Ocean Therapy Solutions CEO John Houghtaling. “They were developed from older centrifuge technology. Normal centrifuge machines are very slow and sensitive to different ratios of oil to water mixtures at intake.” The devices, which can be taken to the spill site via barges, come in different sizes. The largest can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute — more than 50 gallons faster than the well is leaking, according to the firm. Depending on the water to oil ratio, the devices are capable of extracting 2000 … Video Rating: 4 / 5
US Lawmaker: Blown-out Oil Well Relied on Faulty Device
Henry Waxman says oil rig’s so-called fail-safe system was leaking fluid in hours before well exploded
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