Category Archives: Oil

BP resumes work on relief well

By doris | Published: July 26, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW ORLEANS — Ships were getting back in place Sunday at the Gulf of Mexico site of BP’s leaky oil well as crews restarted work on plugging the gusher before another big storm stops work again. Piping for the main relief well being drilled was being reinstalled and should be ready [...]

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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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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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BP works to replace containment cap over ruptured well

By doris | Published: July 11, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com Why can’t they get it right? This company didn’t do any research on taking a oil pipe leak until it happen.  Just like all the other businesses, wait till the horse gets out of the barn then fix the problem. What about planning ahead just in case something happens. This is just [...]

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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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‘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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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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Gas rig sinks of coast of Venezuela, government says

By doris | Published: May 14, 2010

Full Story atnews.blogs.cnn.com This company had valves that cut the gas off.  Why did BP not have the same. What did they want for oil prices to go up again and out of reach for the poor people. This company sounds like the know what they are doing. Venezuelan government officials said Thursday they are [...]

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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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Efforts to stop leak under way after oil rig explosion

By doris | Published: April 27, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Efforts were under way Sunday to contain and stop oil leaking from a well after a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Officials found oil was leaking Saturday from the well. The Deepwater Horizon oil rig was drilling when it exploded Tuesday night, [...]

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At least 11 missing after blast on oil rig in Gulf

By doris | Published: April 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The U.S. Coast Guard launched a major search effort Wednesday for 11 people missing after a “catastrophic” explosion aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico engulfed the drilling platform in flames. Another 17 people were injured — three critically — in the blast aboard the Deepwater Horizon, [...]

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The impact of more offshore drilling

By doris | Published: April 1, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com By opening parts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico to oil drilling, the Obama administration wants to tap a huge energy resource that could keep fuel costs in check. But don’t expect gasoline pump prices to fall anytime soon because of the new drilling. The offshore areas are located [...]

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Oil spill at Texas port dumps 450,000 gallons

By doris | Published: January 24, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A tanker ship loaded with oil in the Port of Port Arthur, Texas, collided with two barges being towed by a tug boat, resulting in a spill of about 450,000 gallons of crude, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. No injuries were reported, but a 50-block area around the [...]

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ExxonMobil finalizes PNG LNG sales to TEPCO

By doris | Published: December 7, 2009

Full Story at Reuters.com TEPCO, Japan’s largest utility, has entered a binding agreement with project partners for the purchase of 1.8 million tonnes per year (mtpy) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for a period of 20 years, Exxon said in a statement. The contracted volume includes the plant’s recently expanded output of 0.3 mtpy, which [...]

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Refinery Workers Set To Go On Strike

By doris | Published: February 1, 2009

Full Story At CBS News AP) With a third contract offer rejected, some 24,000 refinery workers from the Gulf of Mexico to Montana prepared to head to the picket lines Saturday just hours before an existing labor agreement expires. The nation’s biggest refiner, Valero Energy Corp., said it would shut down some facilities if workers [...]

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