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Fill her up with spill oil? BP to sell leaked crude

By doris | Published: June 12, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW ORLEANS – Oil from the worst spill in U.S. history could soon end up at gas stations, construction sites and even grocery stores once BP sells the crude taken from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico to raise money for wildlife protection. Energy giant BP announced this week [...]

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Hurricanes could derail August oil leak deadline

By doris | Published: June 6, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico would force the shutdown of BP’s relief well operations, further hampering what BP has said is the best sure-fire way of plugging the massive oil leak. “How much time you could potentially lose when you shut down for a hurricane is more or [...]

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BP turns to giant shears to cut leaking Gulf pipe

By doris | Published: June 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com PENSACOLA, Fla. – BP engineers will try to use a pair of giant shears to slice off a leaking pipe after their latest attempt hit a snag trying to stop their broken well from spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast Guard said BP was [...]

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Robots succeed, cut well pipe; oil gushes into Gulf

By doris | Published: June 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com CNN) — A new flow of oil emerged from BP’s damaged undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday evening after a remote-controlled submarine successfully cut into the well’s riser pipe. BP used robots in its latest attempt to curtail the flow of crude from the largest spill in U.S. [...]

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Oil complicates forecasts on hurricane season

By doris | Published: May 31, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com VENICE, La. – As hurricane season approaches, the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is taking weather forecasters into nearly uncharted waters. The Gulf is a superhighway for hurricanes that form or explode over pools of hot water, then usually move north or west toward the coast. It’s now [...]

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‘Top kill’ fails, BP moves on ‘to next option’

By doris | Published: May 30, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Robert, Louisiana (CNN) — Three attempts to pump mud and 16 tries to stuff solid material into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well failed to stop the flow, top BP executives said Saturday, and engineers and executives with the oil giant have decided to “move on to the next option.” [...]

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BP resumes ‘top kill’ effort to stop leak

By doris | Published: May 28, 2010

Full Story atmsnbc.com COVINGTON, La. – As BP labored for a second day Thursday to choke off the leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, dire new government estimates showed the disaster has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. The company announced late in the day [...]

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Gulf of Mexico oil spill called worst in U.S. history

By doris | Published: May 27, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Venice, Louisiana (CNN) — The Gulf of Mexico undersea gusher has already spilled more oil than the Exxon Valdez disaster — possibly more than twice as much, making it the largest oil spill in U.S. history — government scientists said Thursday. Scientists observed 130,000 to 270,000 barrels of oil on the [...]

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Kevin Costner Promoting Oil Cleanup Machine

By doris | Published: May 22, 2010

Full Story at gnn.com (MAY 20) — They’ve tried just about everything else to address the oil spill from a blown-out well in the Gulf, so why not an oil extraction machine backed by a famous Hollywood actor?Kevin Costner was in Louisiana today with such a device, this one working on the principal of centrifugal [...]

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BP: Oil leak could be stopped by next week

By doris | Published: May 21, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — A BP official says a gusher of oil pouring from its damaged Gulf of Mexico well could be shut off as early as next week. BP Managing Director Bo Dudley said Thursday night the company will pump fluids into the well this weekend in the beginning of a [...]

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BP ready to try again to stop oil flow, company says

By doris | Published: May 15, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — BP will try again within the next day to cap a well that has gushed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the energy company said Friday. The latest attempt will involve inserting a tube into a ruptured pipe, collecting oil and sending [...]

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Oil taking toll on Gulf Coast property owners

By doris | Published: May 9, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com As floating globs of oil begin to come ashore on the barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, real estate agents and homeowners along the Gulf Coast are bracing for a potential and perhaps devastating drop in property values. Already some owners are seeing cancellations stemming from the uncertainty around the [...]

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Gulf spill: Worse than Exxon Valdez?

By doris | Published: April 30, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The oil leak triggered by a deadly rig blast off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to cause more environmental damage than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, one of the largest ecological disasters ever recorded, some observers say. “As it is now, it’s already looking like this could be the [...]

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New leak discovered as Coast Guard mulls options to clean oil spill

By doris | Published: April 29, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The estimated amount of oil leaking from a sunken rig in the Gulf of Mexico has increased to as much as 5,000 barrels a day — five times more than what was originally believed, a Coast Guard official said late Wednesday. Rear Adm. Mary Landry told reporters that the [...]

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