Category Archives: Fuel

Chevrolet Volt earns top gov’t safety rating

By doris | Published: June 3, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Chevrolet Volt earned a top five-star rating in thee federal government’s new, tougher crash test rating system. Under the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s new rating system, all vehicles are given a single rating of one to five stars encompassing front and side impact safety as [...]

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BP gets $1 bln settlement from Gulf well partner

By doris | Published: May 20, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LONDON — BP has struck a deal to receive around $1 billion from one of its minority partners in the blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, raising hopes it will successfully pursue other companies involved and reduce its bill for the disaster. BP PLC said Thursday that MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC, which [...]

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Halliburton admits skipping test on Gulf well cement

By doris | Published: October 30, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com Halliburton Co. acknowledged late Thursday that it skipped doing a critical test on the final formulation of cement used to seal the BP oil well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico. The company, which was BP’s cementing contractor, said that BP at the last-minute increased the amount of a [...]

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The well is dead, but Gulf challenges live on

By doris | Published: September 20, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com The “nightmare well” is dead. But the Gulf coast’s bad dream is far from over. Federal officials declared Sunday that the well where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded had finally been killed. Workers drilled a relief well into the damaged one and sealed it with cement. Its official end came 11 [...]

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Where did the oil go? Researchers point to sea floor

By doris | Published: September 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A team of researchers in the Gulf of Mexico say they found an oily layer as thick as two inches coating the sea floor in some places, and they believe it may be from the BP spill. “I think what we’re seeing is oil that was on the surface, [...]

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U.S.: 3,500 unused Gulf wells must be plugged

By doris | Published: September 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON — Oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico will have to permanently plug nearly 3,500 temporarily abandoned wells and dismantle about 650 production platforms that are no longer used, the Obama administration announced Wednesday. The move comes as the energy industry voices complaints that it is being [...]

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BP: ‘Static kill’ is working on Gulf well

By doris | Published: August 4, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — BP said Wednesday that it had reached the “desired outcome” in a procedure in which it pumped mud down the throat of the blown-out well that is leaking in the Gulf of Mexico. BP spokeswoman Sheila Williams said the mud is holding the oil down. [...]

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Officials optimistic amid preparations to seal Gulf oil well

By doris | Published: July 29, 2010

Full Story CNN.com (CNN) — One hundred days after an oil well operated by BP ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico, and 13 days after crews finished capping the well to contain the gushing crude, the man who is overseeing the federal response is optimistic that steps planned for the coming days will finally, permanently [...]

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Pipeline leak pollutes major Michigan river

By doris | Published: July 28, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MARSHALL TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Crews were working Tuesday to contain and clean up more than 800,000 gallons of oil that poured into a creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan, coating birds and fish. Authorities in Battle Creek and Emmett Township warned residents about the strong odor from [...]

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BP tech team: Priority is to ‘see’ oil underwater

By doris | Published: July 25, 2010

Full Story at news.CNET.com Everything from high-tech imaging gear to plastic bags with screens is being tested by a “skunk works” team at BP set up to evaluate cleanup methods in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil company’s High Interest Technology Team, based in Mobile, Ala., is currently sifting through thousand of proposals to fix [...]

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Allen says seep has been detected, demands results from BP tests

By doris | Published: July 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Testing continues and scientists are evaluating the results to decide whether to resume collecting oil from BP’s ruptured deepwater well, the company said Monday. BP’s statement came hours after Thad Allen, the federal government’s oil spill response director, said that testing had revealed a “detected seep a distance from [...]

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No oil leaking as BP conducts critical pressure tests in Gulf oil well

By doris | Published: July 16, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — A highly anticipated test designed to measure pressure within BP’s ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well finally began Thursday, and for the first time in nearly three months, oil stopped flowing into the Gulf. The move was lauded by a variety of officials as a positive [...]

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New cap on ruptured oil well faces key tests

By doris | Published: July 13, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — BP plans to begin testing the new cap on its ruptured deepwater well Tuesday — a move that officials hope will be a step on the way to stopping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. “This test involves closing one or more of the [...]

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Solar-powered plane completes 26-hour flight

By doris | Published: July 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com London, England (CNN) — A solar-powered aircraft, which a team hopes will one day circle the globe, completed a 26-hour test flight in Switzerland at 9 a.m. (3 a.m. ET) Thursday. Solar Impulse took off shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday from an airfield in Payerne, 80 miles northeast of Geneva. The [...]

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Gulf Coast expecting glum Fourth of July

By doris | Published: July 3, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Fireworks displays have been canceled. White-sand beaches that should be crowded with sunbathers are instead dotted with cleanup workers, booms and sand-sifting equipment. Normally packed hotels are trying to fill rooms ahead of what is a crucial weekend for beach businesses. Across the oil-stained Gulf Coast, it’s [...]

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A floating city springs up to contain gulf oil spill

By doris | Published: June 28, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com Dead ahead through the helicopter windshield, it appears like a mirage at the hazy horizon: a city in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico. A city on fire. Just a few months ago, the site of the disaster, 42 miles from the last marsh grass at the very tip of [...]

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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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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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