Tropical Storm Bonnie battered the central Bahamas on Thursday night and headed to the site of the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. According to the US National Hurricane Center in Miami, after affecting Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas with lightning and heavy rains, the typhoon could reach the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. Reports [...]
Alex was downgraded to a tropical storm Thursday, while traveling on Mexican territory. Mexico’s weather service warned that while the winds continue to decline, weather conditions are severe in the next 24 to 48 hours in the north and northeast. Alex had made landfall on the coast of Tamaulipas around 21:00 local time Wednesday (0200 [...]
The president of British Petroleum (BP), Carl-Henric Svanberg, announced yesterday that the company will suspend payment of quarterly dividends this year to meet expenses incurred by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “The BP board of directors decided not to pay more dividends this year,” Svanberg said after meeting, along with other senior [...]
Barack Obama‘s leadership in the case of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico faces key tests this week, in which the U.S. President will give his first speech to the nation about the disaster and shall meet first time with BP executives. With the greatest environmental disaster in American history, Obama will put [...]
British Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced on Thursday that this weekend will talk about the ‘BP oil spill’ in the Gulf of Mexico with U.S. President Barack Obama, whose criticism of the oil group BP began to cause concern in Britain. “I understand the frustration of the U.S. government because it is a disaster for [...]
On Tuesday, United States President Barack Obama felt the need to criticize BP CEO Tony Hayward for not recognizing the actual impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “He wouldn’t be working for me after any of those statements,” President Obama stated in an interview during the Today Show by NBC. As [...]
Despite oil coasted wildlife, unprofitable fisherfolks and dirty beaches comes the hope of reviving the Gulf of Mexico on Barataria Bay, La. Coast Guard says that almost half of the oil profusely flowing is being trapped, however BP PLC engineers must be able to close possible vents that would reduce fluid pressure and prevent the [...]
The CEO of BP admitted that oil company was not fully prepared to deal with the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a newspaper report on Thursday. The Financial Times published comments by Tony Hayward saying it was “entirely fair criticism” to say that the company was not fully prepared for [...]
The nation’s worst oil spill increases its work on detroying the environment, as now the oil that is spewing in the Gulf of Mexico reached an estimate of 800,000 gallons per day. The rate is 20 percent faster than before, the BP could still need several more days before they would be able to cap [...]
June 2, 43 days after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which is caused by the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC who is in charge of cleanup and containment of the oil spill. 11 workers died in the [...]