Sentences with phrase «seabed well»

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.

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

BP, by dint of circumstance, has had nearly complete control over the flow of information from its destroyed seabed well — including this video feed.

Not exact matches

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.

Scallops and prawns are no better — they are caught by bottom trawling, destroying wide areas of seabed and all coral and growth below;

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.

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

It has been so well preserved by the sandy seabed that weevils sit in the grain stores, human skeletons lie undisturbed in their graves, and a mysterious stone circle still stands as it was first erected.

The oxygen situation of the seabed and the water near the seabed in the sampling stations of the research vessel Muikku in the outer archipelago of the Gulf of Finland was also mainly good.

When CO2 is injected into the seabed, sometimes we need to remove the water being pressed out of the rocks through a new well,» say Landrø and Torsæter.

Now, after decades of grim losses, the news from the Aral Sea is good: Since the dam's completion last August, the smaller, northern part of the Aral Sea has swelled by 30 percent, flooding more than 300 square miles of parched, sun - bleached seabed.

The United States has released an ambitious, climate - and conservation - focused agenda for its 2 - year chairmanship that includes pushing for more research on black carbon, which accelerates melting in the region, and on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the seabed and permafrost, as well as creating a network of marine protected areas in the Arctic and equipping Arctic villages with renewable energy sources.

Thousands of feet below the ocean's surface lies a hidden world of undiscovered species and unique seabed habitats — as well as a vast untapped store of natural resources including valuable metals and rare - earth minerals.

Alternatively, by allowing it to feed on algae as well as rubbish on the seabed, it could be a way to take in a range of nutrients.

The oxygen situation of water near the seabed is now very good, although it worsened for a time over the past year in the Bornholm basin following the lesser Baltic inflows that occurred during the winter and spring of 2014.

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.

In order to solve this question, the team took samples from the seabed, from the boundary layer between the seabed and seawater, as well as from different water layers in the tropical oxygen minimum zone during the Expedition M92 with the German research vessel METEOR in January 2013.

in the sediments below the seabed as well as by chemical transformation of organic matter at greater burial depths.

It's from the Ancient Zechstein seabed (which the manufacturers love to mention, to add mystique) which my product comes from as well and it's 100 % pure.

Elephant head is considered one of the best dive spots due to the intricate maze - like rocks that dominate the seabed.

A bathing suit and a good snorkel mask are however required if you want to meet Christ of the Abyss, who sits sunken on the seabed.

The main reason Koh Wai is included as a dive site is that this area offers the best chance of seeing reef sharks basking on the seabed.

It was then transported by ship to Dubai in eight pieces, ensuring minimal disruption to guests, as well as the seabed and marine life.

Well, it has a coastline beach spanning 4.5 kilometers of a flat and even seabed, hence, water activities are safe even for children!

You will be able to see one such flat - pack cathedral — which spent well over a thousand years on the seabed — reconstructed at the Ashmolean Museum's exhibition (above).

Now I get to spend the last twenty or God forbid, thirty years of my life watching it destroyed, one species, one parcel of land, one rainforest, seabed, forest and river, lake and ocean, one brilliant, intricate design at a time as we seek «claim» of what once belonged to itself and that was good enough, for exploitation and financial gain.

The section on past and future tempestuous conditions centers on geological evidence from the Bahamas and Bermuda, particularly big boulders lodged well above sea level on Eleuthera and current - carved seabed and coastal features, called chevrons, denoting powerful oceanic dynamics.

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.

Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory cautioned that the new findings were based on a single, fairly simple simulation and said that while the results matched well with the seabed evidence, they lacked the precision needed to know what will happen over short periods.

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.

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

Still, there are other locations that have good seabed conditions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are also many glacial ice cores as well as coral and seabed cores.

Large amounts of methane are produced in anaerobic conditions by bacterial activity in the sediments below the seabed as well as by chemical transformation of organic matter at greater burial depths.

The outer limits of the shelf are defined using the physical attributes of the seabed (depth, composition) as well as distance from shore.

For example, Best (2006) speculated that increased organic sediments sent down rivers due to deforestation, factory farming, etc., once buried in the seabed, will be converted to methane by bacteria, perhaps seriously adding to greenhouse gas emissions.

There are lots of old oil and gas wells in this part of the seabed, potential avenues for leakage.