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Halliburton: BP Hid info that might have prevented spill – Houston Chronicle 0

Posted on September 03, 2011 by bp complaints

The Guardian

Halliburton: BP Hid info that might have prevented spill
Houston Chronicle
Photo: HC staff / Houston Chronicle Oil field services giant Halliburton says BP hid key information about the Macondo well that could have helped prevent the deadly April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and the ensuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Black Tide Reveals the Struggle of Gulf Coast Communities After Deepwater HorizonSmall Business Trends
Researching the effects of the BP oil spill: An editorialNOLA.com
Sale Of Western Gulf Oil Leases To Open Waters Off Texas CoastGulf Coast Maritime
Salient News –Christian Science Monitor –Bloomberg
all 642 news articles »

deepwater horizon – Google News

Some deepwater GoM drilling might move ahead – Offshore Oil and Gas Magazine 0

Posted on January 04, 2011 by bp complaints

New York Times (blog)

Some deepwater GoM drilling might move ahead
Offshore Oil and Gas Magazine
Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE) says projects interrupted by the deepwater drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico following the BP oil spill
When will the Gulf of Mexico finally be free of BP-spilled oil?Slate Magazine
Deepwater Drilling Returning to Gulf of MexicoBarron’s (blog)
Teen Take 2010The State Journal-Register
Wall Street Journal –Courthouse News Service –WatertownDailyTimes.com
all 311 news articles »

gulf oil spill updates – Google News

Gulf of Mexico ‘fish kill’ discovered but culprit is not who you might think – Daily Mail 0

Posted on September 16, 2010 by bp complaints

Daily Mail

Gulf of Mexico 'fish kill' discovered but culprit is not who you might think
Daily Mail
Spokeswoman Olivia Watkins said today that department biologists found the fish kill had nothing to do with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Massive Fish Kill in Louisiana: Is it Linked to Gulf Oil Spill?Examiner.com
Massive fish kill unrelated to BPStuff.co.nz
Fish deaths trigger oil questionsBBC News
Green Building Pro (blog) –CBS News –AltTransport
all 53 news articles »

gulf oil spill updates – Google News

RPT-ANALYSIS-Doing nothing might have been best for oil spill 0

Posted on June 30, 2010 by bp complaints

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Deepwater Horizon
Image by New Orleans Lady

RPT-ANALYSIS-Doing nothing might have been best for oil spill
Source: Reuters (Repeats with no changes to text) * Some scientists dismayed by “gung ho” attitude to cleanup * Doing nothing might have been better for environment * High political stakes weigh …
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Where Gulf Spill Might Place on the Roll of Disasters 0

Posted on June 20, 2010 by bp complaints

Where Gulf Spill Might Place on the Roll of Disasters
President Obama called the leak in the Gulf of Mexico “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.” But is the description accurate?
Read more on New York Times

Gulf oil spill: real disaster might be lurking beneath the surface 1

Posted on May 16, 2010 by bp complaints

Gulf oil spill: real disaster might be lurking beneath the surface
From the first moments that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig sank last month, it has been apparent that the blooming Gulf oil spill has been an oil disaster unlike any other. But the full truth of that statement is perhaps only now beginning to become apparent.
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Gulf oil spill: real disaster might be lurking beneath the surface – Christian Science Monitor 1

Posted on May 16, 2010 by bp complaints

Reuters

Gulf oil spill: real disaster might be lurking beneath the surface
Christian Science Monitor
That is clearly not what has happened in the Gulf, where shorelines have, so far, emerged relatively unscathed. The nature of the oil in the Gulf oil spill
Updates and the latest pictures from the Gulf oil spillExaminer.com
Gulf oil spill could result in biggest environmental and maritime litigation NOLA.com
Gulf oil spill: Obama administration warns BP it's on the hook for all damages Los Angeles Times (blog)
Tulsa World –MSMDC News (blog) –Gulf Coast Newspapers
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BP Spill Suits Might Be Combined, Resolved Quickly, Lawyer Says 1

Posted on May 12, 2010 by bp complaints

BP Spill Suits Might Be Combined, Resolved Quickly, Lawyer Says
May 6 (Bloomberg) — About 200 attorneys suing BP Plc over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill met in a New Orleans hotel to devise a strategy for resolving virtually all spill litigation within three months, a lawyer said.

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Despite admiral’s claims, fire booms that might have lessened oil spill not required equipment 0

Posted on May 08, 2010 by bp complaints

Despite admiral’s claims, fire booms that might have lessened oil spill not required equipment
There appears to be nothing in federal law that requires BP or any other oil company to have such booms on hand during drilling or production activities in U.S. waters, despite fire booms being labeled as a primary first-response option in federal documents.

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Strange Smell Affecting Florida’s Gulf Coast Might be From Oil Rig Disaster 0

Posted on May 03, 2010 by bp complaints

Southwest Floridians were wondering why strong odors of color crayons were wafting about late Monday night. Some described the smell as melting plastic or lamp oil. Complaints and concerns came from Cape Coral to Everglades City and everywhere in between.

Strong winds from the west since Sunday could connect the odor to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week. “It’s certainly a possibility,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Barron, quoted the Naples Daily News. He said winds are expected to turn today from out of the north.

 

Crews have been in a quandary how to stop thousands of barrels of oil from pouring into the ocean. The spill is now within 20 miles of Venice, Louisiana and covers an area as wide as 42 miles across, and up to 80 miles in length with long reddish-orange ribbons of oil.

On Tuesday, officials speculated the slick would not reach land for a few days due to wind conditions. Exactly where along the Gulf Coast it will first arrive is still a guess. Environmentalists and others fear oyster beds, delicate wetlands, and sugary white beaches could all be damaged.

“If we don’t secure this well, this could be one of the most significant oil spills in U.S. history,” said Rear Adm. Mary Landry yesterday, quoted the Naples Daily News.

The April 20 blast destroyed the Deepwater Horizon, which was drilling about 50 miles southeast of Venice, La. Eleven missing workers are presumed dead, and the cause of the explosion is still unknown.

According to the Naples Daily News, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) released a statement Tuesday prompted by odor complaints throughout the Gulf coast area. They are measuring air quality at their monitoring stations, but say no “abnormal result” for particulate matter is indicated at this time.

However, the DEP’s stations do not measure VOCs, volatile organic compounds, that would be produced in an oil rig fire. The Pinellas County air quality division did take VOC readings at its monitoring stations and is expecting results later this week, said the DEP, wrote the Naples Daily News.

The last major oil spill in the Gulf was in June 1979, when the offshore drilling rig Ixtoc I blew up in Mexican waters, dumping 140 million gallons of oil before the well was capped in March 1980. A lot of spillage contaminated Texas shorelines and U.S. waters.

“In the worst-case scenario, this could also last months,”said Richard Haut, a senior research scientist at the Houston Advanced Research Center. A twenty year veteran of Exxon, Haut spent 10 of those years on an offshore platform in the North Sea, according to the Naples Daily News.

Presently, thousands of egrets, brown pelicans, and other birds are nesting on barrier islands near the rig’s wreckage. Billions of fish eggs and larvae coating the Gulf’s surface are also threatened.

If the well cannot be closed, about 4.2 million gallons of oil could pour into the Gulf before workers can drill a relief well. The Exxon Valdez, America’s worst oil disaster, leaked 11 million gallons into Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989.

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