Sentences with phrase «bp drilled the well»

As BP drilled the well, its focus was on maximizing profits, the report says, not necessarily on safety or preventing a gusher:

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Where's the footage of O sitting on top of the BP well head that's leaking in the Gulf, holding up a sign that says «Drill, Baby, Drill.»

Congress, as well as the Minerals and Management Service, the federal agency that regulates drilling in the Gulf, were already separately investigating allegations that BP has failed to keep proper documents about how to perform an emergency shutdown of the Atlantis, another Gulf oil platform and one of the largest in the world.

Of course, the chances of the top kill succeeding are good but not great; BP's CEO admits the chances of stopping the oil flow with a drilling mud / concrete one - two punch sit somewhere between 60 % and 70 %.

On the afternoon of May 26, BP technicians fired up pumps rated at a total of 30,000 horsepower and began shooting heavy drilling mud into the well.

With the oil staunched, Chu allowed BP to proceed with a so - called «static kill» — another attempt to push the oil back down the well with heavy drilling mud, made much easier by the fact that the oil no longer had a clear path out of the seafloor.

This is a precursor to the two relief wells that BP is drilling on either side of its leaking well.

BP's efforts to drill relief wells are generally viewed as the company's best, and perhaps only, chance to plug the Macondo 252 well gushing thousands of barrels of oil and natural gas into the Gulf of Mexico each day for the past month and a half.

On Friday Science's Richard Kerr published a story in Science on the challenge of drilling a relief well; BP is currently drilling two to hopefully stop the gulf gusher.

The driller overseeing this operation for BP is 40 out of 40 for hitting target wells.

Meanwhile, Oil and Gas Journal summarized the responses to the report from BP, Halliburton, and Transocean, the three companies involved with setting up the well and drilling it:

The fact that BP is drilling two relief wells gives the effort a 98 percent chance of success, he adds.

BP's next fallback is a relief well, which it started drilling last week.

Drilling techniques that enable BP to extract between five and seven times more oil or gas from a single well, this week earned two BP engineers the 1992 MacRobert Award, Britain's top engineering prize.

From June 2010 through June 2013 there were four mass strandings of dead dolphins on Gulf coast beaches stretching from the Texas — Louisiana border into Florida — three after the beginning of the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform that saw BP's Macondo well blow out.

Artist Statement on DEEPHORIZON: «The supreme discipline of art — oil painting — is back with a vengeance — in the form of an oil painting on a 80.000 square miles ocean canvas with 32 million litres of oil — a unique piece of art... It has been 13 days since a BP oil and gas exploration well blew out, setting fire to the drilling rig, which sank, killing 11 people.

For a sample of how well the pushback narrative is now deployed, with the ongoing BP spill as benchmark, have a look at how in 2009, a BP Executive Told Congress That Offshore Drilling Has Been «Safe And Protective Of Environment»

3) Has anyone asked BP why the relief well has to be drilled down more than 13,000 feet instead of intersecting the well at a shallower depth?

An image taken Thursday night from one of BP's video cameras monitoring the oil and drilling mud flowing from its damaged well.

BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster indicates that the best efforts of the oil industry are incapable of preventing environmental calamities from offshore drilling.

Postscript: Tonight, BP resumed efforts to choke the well with heavy drilling mud, with no assurance of success and two or three more possible solutions in the wings.

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.

So far the oil and gas gushing from the well drilled nearly four miles into the seabed for BP has confounded all efforts by the company to put the genie back in its bottle.

Just as the Pentagon and military contractors develop symbiotic business, technical and political interdependencies, the government in this case needs BP's offshore drilling technology and well - control equipment; the company needs the government's logistical and scientific expertise, including that of Dr. Chu, a Nobel Prize - winning scientist.

He added that BP is going to stop drilling that well farther unless it ends up being needed.

Photo: BP Update: BREAKING: Flow of Oil Halted for First Time Since April BP to Restart Pressure Test After Fixing Leaking Hose When delays for the pressure tests and relief well drilling were announced yesterday, we were afraid that this might be a

Its business is drilling and managing oil wells as a sub-contractor for fossil fuel corporations such as BP, Occidental, and Petrogas.