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  • Deepwater Drilling To Resume In Macondo Reservoir

    05/13/2015 10:17:00 AM PDT · by thackney · 8 replies
    Oil Pro ^ | 5/13/2015 | Luke Hale
    According to US federal records reviewed by the Associated Press, Louisiana-based LLOG Exploration Offshore plans to engage in deepwater drilling in the Macondo reservoir. The AP says Harper's Magazine first reported the drilling plans late Tuesday. The BSEE green-lighted LLOG's permit to drill a new well near the Macondo site on April 13. Last October, the company's exploration plan was approved after the conclusion of an environmental review conducted by the BOEM. Referring to the 2010 Macondo incident which occurred in the same reservoir, LLOG's vice president for deepwater projects, Rick Fowler, told the AP, "Our commitment is not to...
  • How Microbes Helped Clean BP's Oil Spill

    04/29/2015 10:54:20 AM PDT · by thackney · 29 replies
    Scientific American ^ | April 28, 2015 | David Biello
    Like cars, some microbes use oil as fuel. Such microorganisms are a big reason why BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was not far worse. "The microbes did a spectacular job of eating a lot of the natural gas," says biogeochemist Chris Reddy of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The relatively small hydrocarbon molecules in natural gas are the easiest for microorganisms to eat. "The rate and capacity is a mind-boggling testament to microbes," he adds. As Reddy suggests, the microbes got help from the nature of the oil spilled—so-called Louisiana light, sweet crude mixed with natural...
  • 5 years after BP spill: What's changed in offshore drilling

    04/20/2015 12:53:05 PM PDT · by Citizen Zed · 3 replies
    eaglefordtexas.com ^ | 4-20-2015 | Cain Burdeau | The Associated Press
    NEW ORLEANS — As oil gushed from BP’s ruptured well five years ago and public outrage built by the day, the Obama administration issued a six-month moratorium on drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. When the well was finally capped after nearly three months, political and industry pressure mounted on the White House to lift the ban, which it did about a month earlier than planned. Since then, oil and gas drilling Gulf has bounced back strongly and the number of deep-water drilling rigs has actually increased from 35 to about 48. Drillers are pushing into even deeper water and...
  • Botched safety test, extra drilling key to “reckless” BP ruling

    09/08/2014 5:26:02 AM PDT · by thackney · 3 replies
    Fuel Fix ^ | September 5, 2014 | Collin Eaton
    A federal judge’s ruling that BP was reckless in the lead-up to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill hinged on mishandling of well integrity tests and a decision to drill deeper than was deemed safe, among other factors the judge said were “motivated by profit.” For years, the London oil company has been waging courtroom warfare over the events before the worst oil spill in U.S. history, pointing to alleged mistakes by cement contractor Halliburton and rig operator Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon rig where 11 workers died in an explosion as the disaster unfolded. U.S. District Judge Carl...
  • BP Found Grossly Negligent in Deepwater Horizon Disaster

    09/04/2014 8:59:17 AM PDT · by shove_it · 16 replies
    WSJ ^ | 4 Sep 2014 | DANIEL GILBERT
    <p>BP BP.LN -5.99% PLC was grossly negligent in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill, a federal judge ruled Thursday.</p> <p>The decision by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans means BP faces as much as $18 billion in civil penalties under the U.S. Clean Water Act for pollution in the Gulf of Mexico, far more than if the judge had found the company simply negligent.</p>
  • How the White House Delivered a Crushing Economic Blow to the Gulf

    08/20/2012 4:23:48 PM PDT · by bayouranger · 31 replies
    pjmedia ^ | 20AUG12 | by Sen. David Vitter
    PJM EXCLUSIVE: Louisiana's GOP senator on how the cover-up to trump sound science in favor of political ideology keeps growing with each chapter. Here’s the book-jacket teaser: A major U.S. environmental disaster strikes. As Coast Guard and other heroes struggle to contain the unprecedented damage, a different scene unfolds in a dimly lit conference room in Washington. A small group of high-ranking political hacks and overzealous ideologues see an opportunity to manipulate the situation to advance their agenda. They doctor a key report on the disaster by experts in order to justify shutting down all exploration and new production. They...
  • Anadarko to Pay BP $4 Billion for Deepwater

    10/17/2011 12:50:40 PM PDT · by smokingfrog · 4 replies
    WSJ ^ | 17 Oct 2011 | Guy Chazan
    LONDON—Anadarko Petroleum Co. agreed to pay BP PLC $4 billion to settle all claims between the two companies arising from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a development that reduced uncertainty about the British oil giant's ultimate liability for last year's disaster. Anadarko also will drop its allegations of gross negligence against the oil giant, a move which could increase the pressure on contractors Halliburton Co. and Transocean Ltd. to come to terms with BP. Legal observers say Anadarko's move was seen as likely after a final report by U.S. investigators last month into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon...
  • US Challenged over Approval of Shell Gulf Drilling Plan

    06/13/2011 9:22:42 PM PDT · by Rabin · 8 replies
    Rigzone ^ | Friday, June 10, 2011 | Ryan Tracy|
    Environmental groups Thursday sued the Obama administration over its approval of a Shell plan to drill for oil deep under the Gulf of Mexico. The suit was the opening salvo in what could be a lengthy legal fight over U.S. drilling policy following the resumption of oil and gas exploration after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. It came a day after ExxonMobil announced one of the largest oil discoveries ever in the Gulf…
  • Disaster Inspires Brilliant Answers

    05/05/2011 10:23:07 PM PDT · by Rabin · 4 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Thursday, May 05, 2011 | Tom Fowler
    From improvements in blowout presenters to improved systems for skimming oil if it does get out of a deep-water well, the offshore industry has spent the past year trying to avoid a repeat of the accident that killed 11 men and triggered the nation's largest offshore oil spill.
  • Key Agency to Miss Next Round of Tests

    04/22/2011 6:46:37 PM PDT · by Rabin · 6 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Thursday, April 21, 2011 | Jennifer A. Dlouhy
    Testing is set to resume next week on the blowout preventer that failed to stop gushing oil at BP's Macondo well, but an independent federal agency that has been probing the disaster will not be permitted to participate. Under a federal judge's ruling, the only witnesses allowed during the examination at a NASA facility in New Orleans will be representatives of the Justice Department, oil spill victims in a broad class-action lawsuit and three companies linked to the disaster. That shuts the door to the Chemical Safety Board… CSB has investigated more than 50 industrial accidents in its two-decade history...
  • Gulf Oil Spill Could Have Been Stopped 48 days Earlier

    03/03/2011 12:00:14 PM PST · by Nachum · 36 replies
    american thinker ^ | 3/3/11 | Bruce Thompson
    For 48 days and nights, the Deepwater Horizon well spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico, when it could have been shut down. We now know this: It is very likely that if the top kill had been designed to deliver more than 109 bpm of 16.4 ppg drilling fluid below the BOP stack for a sustained period, the Macondo blowout could have been stopped between May 26-28, 2010. Given that the well was successfully shut-in with the capping stack in July, and that the subsequent bullhead (static) kill was successful, certainly a higher rate top kill would have been...
  • Halliburton Shares Crash on Cement Test

    10/28/2010 12:06:59 PM PDT · by trumandogz · 17 replies · 1+ views
    The Street ^ | 10.28.29
    NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Halliburton(NYSE:HAL) dropped by as much as 10% on Thursday afternoon after a presidential commission revealed that tests conducted before the BP Macondo oil spill showed that cement used by Halliburton were liable to create unstable conditions.
  • Where has the oil gone?

    08/01/2010 10:32:35 AM PDT · by frithguild · 13 replies · 5+ views
    Gulf Oil Blog ^ | August 1, 2010 | Samantha Joye
    The Deepwater Horizon wellhead that tapped the Macondo reservoir was capped on 15 July 2010. After the venting of oil and gas into the Gulf waters was stopped, everyone felt a sense of relief. Multiple news outlets have reported that the surface oil has disappeared, for the most part. I read many reports that stated conclusively the oil had been either transferred to the atmosphere (via evaporation) or that it had been consumed by oil-eating microorganisms. Everyone’s reaction was, not surprisingly, ‘what a relief !!’. Should we be relieved? Is this disaster over? On the whole, I believe the answer...
  • Debunking the infamous 'dougr' comment, Simmons, and others on the GOM oil spill

    06/25/2010 1:02:29 PM PDT · by profgoose · 6 replies
    The Oil Drum ^ | 6/25/10 | Prof. Goose
    In this post, I would like to respond to a long comment made by DougR a few days ago, that has received a lot of publicity. First, I will say that in one area we are in complete agreement. BP and the USCG have been less than forthcoming, and in doing so have hurt both themselves and the general public as all kinds of wild rumors and technical misinformation abound. Some of this misinformation results in harm to individuals and businesses as people suffer increased stress and tourists cancel vacations. In this information vacuum it is easy to make wrong...
  • In Gulf, It Was Unclear Who Was in Charge of Oil Rig

    06/06/2010 6:37:08 AM PDT · by Ready4Freddy · 25 replies · 837+ views
    NYT ^ | June 5, 2010 | Ian Urbina
    NEW ORLEANS — Over six days in May, far from the familiar choreography of Washington hearings, federal investigators grilled workers involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in a chilly, sterile conference room at a hotel near the airport here. The six-member panel of Coast Guard and Minerals Management Service officials pressed for answers about what occurred on the rig on April 20 before it exploded. They pushed for more insight into an argument on the rig that day between a manager for BP, the well’s owner, and one for Transocean, the rig’s owner, and asked Curt R. Kuchta, the rig’s...
  • Relief Wells and Reality | An Ounce of Prevention

    05/31/2010 3:55:47 PM PDT · by NaturalBornConservative · 3 replies · 326+ views
    Natural Born Conservative ^ | May 31, 2010 | Larry Walker, Jr.
    Solving the BP Blowout and Preventing the Next CrisisCompiled by: Larry M. Walker, Jr.There's more to 'Going Green' than naive Progressive, so called working family party, criminals would have you believe. In reality, going green should consider an 'all of the above' approach. An 'all of the above' approach entails using our current natural resources more effectively, efficiently, responsibly and safely. The Progressive Obama Administration has failed in that it has not governed in the present. The Progressive Obama Administration has attempted to govern in the future (i.e. 20 to 40 years out), while neglecting to govern today. One of...
  • U.S. oil drilling regulator ignored experts' red flags on environmental risks

    05/24/2010 9:52:38 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 57 replies · 1,106+ views
    Washington Post ^ | Tuesday, May 25, 2010 | Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer
    The federal agency responsible for regulating U.S. offshore oil drilling repeatedly ignored warnings from government scientists about environmental risks in its push to approve energy exploration activities quickly, according to numerous documents and interviews. Minerals Management Service officials, who can receive cash bonuses in the thousands of dollars based in large part on meeting federal deadlines for leasing offshore oil and gas exploration, frequently changed documents and bypassed legal requirements aimed at protecting the marine environment, the documents show. This has dramatically weakened the scientific checks on offshore drilling that were established under landmark laws such as the Marine Mammal...