Sentences with phrase «bp blowout»

After the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, a coalition that included Greenpeace and the Sierra Club took out an advertisement in the Vancouver Sun newspaper that drew a direct parallel between that accident and what would inevitably happen if Northern Gateway went ahead.

The BP blowout was at least 1500 Km distant from the present area of OK quakes.

Markey's committee also played a key role investigating the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, demonstrating its role as an important polluter watchdog in Congress.

As someone who was on the Gulf Coast for the BP blowout, I keep reminding people here in Nebraska about these charming folks.

The Big Picture blog has a wonderful article, called Oil Slickonomics, in which three up - to - date prospective scenarios for the BP blowout are succinctly described as: The Bad; The Worse; and, The Ugliest.

Of course, there are already multiple deep - water wells in the Gulf of Mexico alone, including ones such as Shell's Perdido at roughly 2,450 meters beneath the waves that are nearly twice as deep as the BP blowout.

Petrobras's new find lies more than three times farther from shore than BP's ruptured Macondo well, and beneath 7,200 feet of ocean compared with the 5,000 feet of water at the BP blowout site.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

Not exact matches

BP scored a mean of only 41 for its efforts since the blowout on April 20.

Never again, they vowed, would the planet be forced to sit by, powerless, while oil execs confessed — after the fact — that stopping a leak at such depths is like performing «open - heart surgery at 5,000 feet in the dark,» as BP America's chairman and president, Lamar McKay, told ABC News about the early attempt to plug the well by triggering the failed blowout preventer.

Nor did the agency certify blowout preventers, but instead allowed companies like BP to certify the equipment themselves.

The judge faulted BP employees for misreading the results of a test on the stability of the Macondo well, suggesting that its blowout could have been prevented.

BP's investigation into the causes of the Gulf blowout focuses on technical problems.

This puts the BP gusher on par with the 1979 IXTOC 1 blowout, also in the Gulf of Mexico, which created a spill dwarfed only by the destruction of Kuwaiti rigs during the Persian Gulf War.

A new capped blowout preventer that BP has installed may avert that in future.

When BP scientists couldn't figure out how the blowout preventer failed, Chu suggested gamma - ray imaging, which could visually pierce the giant piece of equipment at the bottom of the sea.

Even when BP began pumping oil and gas through a line from the blowout preventer to the Q4000 well - servicing ship — at Garwin's suggestion — the flow of oil into the sea remained undiminished.

Chu killed top kill on May 28, worried that BP's efforts would cause a subsurface blowout and make the gusher impossible to control.

Once the cap was in place, BP prepared to conduct a «well integrity test» — essentially, shutting off the flow of oil and checking pressure readings to see if a subsurface blowout would develop.

What finally worked Despite Chu's oversight, BP remained in charge of critical information flowing from the deep - sea blowout.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The blowout of BP's Macondo well didn't just spew some 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico last year.

The safety valves that failed to stanch the oil leak after the blowout at BP's Deepwater Horizon well are used everywhere.

The new prize — dubbed the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health X PRIZE in honor of its funder, who previously funded the successful oil spill cleanup prize that offered solutions to disasters like Exxon Valdez or BP's Macondo blowout in the Gulf — offers $ 1 million to the team that invents the most accurate sensors as well as another $ 1 million to the team that devises the most affordable and easy - to - use sensors.

One thing to watch for is the fountains of mud spewing from the leak sites in the blowout preventer and riser pipe to die down as BP brings the pumping down — that may have already happened.

New autopsy results confirm mass dolphin strandings largely stemmed from BP's 2010 Macondo well blowout

On April 20, 2010, a blowout at the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, operated by BP.

Commodities markets and stock exchanges aren't happy, and neither are the oil companies whose profits are falling — cheap gas having finally done for BP what even the $ 54 billion Deepwater Horizon blowout couldn't, plunging the petro - giant that assassinated the Gulf of Mexico into the red for an entire fiscal year!

He was in the Grand Hyatt in New Orleans when hurricane Katrina struck and on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico following BP's disastrous Macondo Well blowout.

Some of the ideas for cutting the oil flow — including adding hoses directly to the failed blowout protector rising from the seabed to capture escaping oil — echo work that BP and its Deepwater Horizon team were already considering or have since initiated.

Federal oceanographers have released their second report assessing how much of the oil that gushed from the Gulf of Mexico seabed since the blowout of the BP well may have dispersed in ocean depths rather than rising to the surface.

Are BP and its insurers capable of paying for the likely and worst case damages resulting from this blowout?

Postscript: The Department of Energy has released a large amount of information on the wrecked BP well and components such as the blowout preventer.

With that noted, the presentation was different from anything I had seen before, in laying out step - by - step the differences in how you could design a deepwater well, with multiple, redundant fail - safe points and blowout - prevention systems (which is what Shell says it does), and how, according to Leimkuhler, BP did design and drill the well that has so catastrophically failed in the Gulf.

[420] On 19 August, Admiral Thad Allen ordered BP to keep the blowout preventer to be used as evidence in any court actions.

Oil leasing and drilling has picked up again in the Gulf of Mexico, following a hiatus after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil blowout disaster in 2010.

As I recall, when BP had the blowout on the Macondo well, one of the people that was doing a lot of study about it said that the well would leak crude into the New Madrid fault with the potential affect of causing a lot of earthquakes along the entire fault line.

Failure of blowout preventers to halt a sudden rush of oil and gas has been cited as one of the chief contributors to the April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster.

The regulatory blowout preventer failed long before BP ever started to drill — precisely because Salazar kept in place the crooked environmental guidelines the Bush administration implemented to favor the oil industry.

on Lawsuit seeks answers to why Obama Administration officials lowballed BP oil blowout estimates

As for the BP leak, on 12 May 2010 California Democrat Representative Henry Waxman said that the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee investigation into the Gulf oil spill revealed that the Deepwater Horizon Macaondo oil platform's blowout preventer (BOP) did not pass a crucial pressure test just hours before the explosion.

The blowout occurred on April 20, 2010, and we are still seeing environmental effects from the BP oil spill.