Sentences with phrase «gushing seabed»

BP last night resolved questions about the fate of the oil it was now salvaging in growing quantities from its gushing seabed well, announcing that it will create a wildlife fund with all of its net revenues from selling the oil it skims from the sea surface or collects through the siphon positioned over the leak.

July 19, 9:50 a.m. Updated Lest residents around the Gulf of Mexico rest too easy after the tenth effort by BP to seal its gushing seabed well seemed to work, the federal government Sunday night ordered the company to be prepared to open the valves on its well cap if reports of oil and gas seeping from the seabed nearby were confirmed.

The «top kill» procedure for choking off the gushing seabed well in the Gulf of Mexico was not quite the last best chance, but close.

Not exact matches

Two days later the rig sank, leaving the well gushing in the seabed.

There were frustrated reports about the Mexican government vastly underestimating the volume of oil gushing from the seabed, much like the lowball guesses from BP in April.

In a column on The Times Op - Ed page, four scientists from a team of specialists independently assessing the volume of oil gushing from BP's destroyed seabed well provide more evidence that the company can not be trusted to put the public interest ahead of its corporate interests as this disaster continues to unfold.

The lower marine riser package sits atop the still - gushing well on the seabed and has not stopped the flow.

While the risk to coasts is likely to quickly recede, biologists have expressed strong concerns about the use of nearly 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants that don't destroy surface slicks, but simply cause the oil to disperse and sink (not to mention the dispersants sprayed at the point where oil gushed from the seabed a mile down).

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.

BP says it's trying a new approach to capturing the oil gushing from the Gulf of Mexico seabed (which is a separate challenge from the vital one of stopping the flow).

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.

Here's a new entrant, using software tools from the gaming world to illustrate what a low - end estimate of the volume of oil gushing from the Gulf of Mexico seabed looks like if displayed as stacked barrels.