Sentences with phrase «seabed oil»

2:30 p.m. Updated President Obama delivered a statement on BP and the seabed oil gusher today, decrying the «ridiculous spectacle» of the three main companies involved in the mess pointing fingers at each other in congressional hearings.

Markey had sent letters to BP and the head of the Coast Guard seeking a feed of video of the seabed oil leaks that one of BP's submersibles is capturing — to allow independent scientists (and the public) to monitor and assess the flow.

In the last few days there's been a mix of messages from government officials about whether the Obama administration has the authority to take control of the unrelenting seabed oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

11:50 p.m. Updated Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts has convinced BP to start streaming live video from the seabed oil gusher, he announced on his House Web site tonight.

The Obama administration, clearly hoping that pressure tests on the capped BP seabed oil well succeed, is trying to pivot its online narrative on the disaster from response to recovery.

Not exact matches

A few decades from now, all the equipment needed to process oil may be installed on the seabed.

To reach the oil, it has had to drill horizontally up to 8 miles out below the seabed, setting one world record after another for the longest wells ever drilled.

The EEZ Act was enacted in 2013 to provide a regulatory framework to manage the environmental effects of offshore resource development such as oil exploration and seabed mining.

A concentrated transdermal magnesium mineral supplement, our absorbable magnesium oil contains only raw, ultra pure magnesium chloride and other trace minerals drawn from the Ancient Zechstein Seabed in Northern Europe.

It is now hoping drilling for oil and gas located under the seabed will boost the Islands» economy.

The Bonga Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel receives crude and gas from production wells on the seabed and has the capacity to produce 225,000 barrels of oil and 210 million standard cubic feet of gas per day.

Marine biologist, seabed explorer and former top US government scientist Sylvia Earle tells Phil McKenna how she helped to change George W. Bush's mind — and why she is angry about the methods being used to clean up the Gulf oil spill

[audio clip] That's the sound of air gun testing for the presence of oil and gas under the seabed.

Will it form sediment that gets buried beneath the seabed and eventually turns into plastic «oil» or «coal»?

Designed for deepwater diving, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) DEDAVE is capable of diving down to depths of 6000 meters to explore the seabed for sources of oil or minerals.

A converted oil exploration ship probes the seabed for clues to climate change and the inner workings of the earth.

Fifty years later, researchers found that the ship rocked from side to side on the seabed every time there was a heavy storm, releasing oil.

Geologist John Gorter of ENI Australia was surveying for offshore oil there when he spotted the plateau on a seismic profile of the seabed in the late 1990s.

McCain is in favor of drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf federally controlled submerged land off all U.S. coasts (as opposed to state - controlled seabed)-- in order to lessen American dependence on foreign oil and lower gas prices.

The procedure is intended to stem the flow of oil and gas and ultimately kill the well by injecting heavy drilling fluids through the blow out preventer on the seabed down into the well.

THE flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico may now have been stemmed, but there is an altogether bigger problem lurking on the seabed, a legacy of the greatest ever loss of shipping.

Topical magnesium oil is usually made with magnesium chloride that is mined from the ancient Zechstein Seabed in the Netherlands.

This ultra absorbable magnesium oil contains only pure, raw magnesium chloride and other trace minerals drawn from the Ancient Zechstein Seabed in Northern Europe.

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.

For example, is the seabed there riddled with unplugged boreholes from oil and gas exploration?

And we're pushing on it with growing force, through the rapid buildup of long - lived greenhouse gases flowing from human activities (including burning all that oil we're sucking from seabeds).

From Louisiana's tarred beaches to the silty scenes on the seabed a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico, there have been repeated instances in which BP has tried to limit or delay the flow of information to the public on what is clearly now the biggest oil «spill» in United States history.

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.

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 capping of the well has been conducted cautiously, with days of tests, just in case the walls of the well, which extends some three miles from the seabed down to the oil and gas reservoir, were damaged.

Now there's an oil opera, «As the Oil Flows,» brought to you by BP via a «spillcam» after lawmakers pressed the company to send its nonstop video feeds from the seabed gusher to the publoil opera, «As the Oil Flows,» brought to you by BP via a «spillcam» after lawmakers pressed the company to send its nonstop video feeds from the seabed gusher to the publOil Flows,» brought to you by BP via a «spillcam» after lawmakers pressed the company to send its nonstop video feeds from the seabed gusher to the public.

On the other, however, the big recent summer retreats of the floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean have created new opportunities, not just to chart possible shipping routes, but to expand surveys of the seabed that might someday lead to deep - ocean Arctic oil and gas drilling.

As NPR has reported, the flow of oil revealed in video of the seabed leak appears far larger than official estimates.

The urgency has ramped up as other countries have pushed ahead to file their seabed claims under the treaty, as high energy prices have propelled new plans to seek some of the huge deposits of oil and natural gas that geologists say are probably sitting up north, and as tourists are heading north in fast - growing numbers.

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.

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.

As Bill Broad reported in The Times in June, the gulf seabed is home to communities of organisms that thrive on petrochemical seeps and scientists are split on whether deep drifting oil from the Macondo well poses a significant environmental risk.

David Brancaccio, a longtime correspondent for public radio and television, has written a fascinating post on his new Economy 4.0 blog for the Marketplace radio show analyzing the economic impacts of the gulf oil spill six months after explosions killed 11 workers and unleashed the gusher in the seabed.

Obama administration officials faced growing challenges over the unabated oil gusher on the Gulf of Mexico seabed on Tuesday as analysis of ocean currents appeared to raise the odds that Florida reefs and beaches could be tainted before the month is out.

With Arctic ice melting away, just think their business to dig oil at Arctic seabed, our human being could servival?

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.

It was always inconceivable that President Obama would consider using a nuclear explosion to cut the flow of oil from the unrelenting seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico — no matter how many other options faltered.

One could well be the way it chose the basic design of the well — not just the infamous failed blowout preventer on the top, but the entire system from the seabed to the oil source deep below.

Much of President Obama's first White House news conference in 10 months was, not surprisingly, dominated by statements assuring Americans that the administration was on the case from the first hours after the eruption of an oil gusher on the Gulf of Mexico seabed.

As oil flowed unabated from the Gulf of Mexico seabed, Senator John Kerry used a speech today at a green jobs conference in Washington, D.C., to press the case for an energy bill that speeds the country's journey to a post-fossil future and constrains emissions of greenhouse gases.

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).

Several questions were asked about the integrity of the well bore, the drilled and lined hole descending several miles from the seabed to the oil and gas deposits far below.

(There is also the argument from the practical: I suspect that if you could put a straw into the seabed and suck out enough free methane to change the world, the oil companies would have figured it out by now...)

There have been a host of notable reader reactions to the continuing oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico seabed, the solutions being debated and the potential for us to change our behavior in response.