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 [...]
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 [...]
It was not until President Obama has fired Elizabeth Birnbaum who is the head of the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service that she finally has to leave her position. According to some associated press sources, president obama will announce that Elizabeth Birnbaum must leave her current position. Considering that she had been there since July [...]
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 [...]
The American actor, Kevin Costner gave $24 million for the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This only proves that he is a true nature lover. He has also invested 15 years for this condition and it is considered as a novel act. He started this act while working on his film “Waterworld” [...]
The actor Kevin Costner provided to the BP oil centrifuges with technology developed by him and a group of scientists to separate the oil from the water to try to clean the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, informed the press John Houghtaling, Costner’s partner. Costner is a passionate environmentalist and fisherman in his spare [...]