BP has to abort its top kill procedure on Saturday as dumping of mud and other junks to fix the oil spill ended up effective. A relief well construction is underway, but with the world watching BP’s course of action, the oil company is now maneuvering their underwater robots to place a containment cap on [...]
British Petroleum (BP) acknowledged on Saturday that the operation to clog with mud and cement the leakage of oil that pollutes the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, called “Top Kill“, has failed, after trying to a seal the dome. “We could not stop the flow,” said chief operating officer of the company, Doug Suttles. [...]
In a desperate search of solution to shut off the most horrible oil spill in U.S. history, BP PLC gambles on using the top kill strategy as of 1800 GMT, May 27. A disclaimer has been given by BP CEO Tony Hayward as to the certainty that this process will work, for it was never [...]
Engineers have confirmed that they had been able to stop the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico temporarily. Oil and gas gushing out of British Petroleum well has been a concern for authorities for the ecological damage it has threaten to do to the marine life and also loss of resources. [...]
Elizabeth Birnbaum has resigned! Elizabeth Birnbaum acts as Director of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) from July 15, 2009 and resigned on May 27, 2010 as a consequence of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It has been reported by the Associated Press that US President Barack Obama has fired the head of the Interior Department’s Minerals [...]
The oil spill that is causing more than one month, a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, following the collapse of a platform of British Petroleum (BP), has now ceased due to the new operation launched yesterday by BP sealing the subsea well, as the Admiral of the U.S. Coast Guard, Thad Allen [...]
Under increasing pressure to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the major British oil company BP, outlined their next steps to stop the oil spill with the operation named “top kill” which involves injecting heavy drilling fluids instead of mud and cement, in the well to stop the flow of oil and gas, [...]
BP announced on Tuesday that they will try to cover up the oil spill caused by the explosion and subsequent sinking of one of its platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, adding that the company is preparing an alternative solution if the first try fails. British oil giant, which is trying over a month to [...]
An estimated 6 million gallons of oil has spread in the Gulf of Mexico, and more gush out of the damaged well each day. Senate environmental committee head Barbara Boxer has requested the Justice Department to assess BP’s readiness in preventing the oil spill. U.S Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is doubtful whether BP knows what [...]
Gulf of Mexico is not yet oil-free or will it ever be. Oil has polluted the water. Aquatic life in affected areas is slowly diminishing. President Obama called BP’s attention, the latter found ways to extract the oil, but it was not just enough. It needs the cooperation of its citizens, authorities, and even celebrities [...]