Thursday, August 19, 2010

Oil Drilling News

GULF OIL DISASTER


BP to Bring in Well Device as It Awaits U.S. Orders


Admiral Thad Allen Issues Directive to BP Providing Authorization and Conditions for BOP Replacement Prior to Completion of the Relief Well


Regulatory Agencies' Attempts to Sweep Oil Under the Rug Raise Questions


WHOI Scientists Map and Confirm Origin of Large, Underwater Hydrocarbon Plume in Gulf

Does 3,000 feet under the surface qualify as "under the rug?"

How do they know the oil is gone? They guessed


Oceanographer To Challenge US Claims On Spill Cleanup


Deepwater Horizon's Enduring Lessons

Interview with Thad Allen


Finding New Ways to Fill the Tank

"Now the federal government is plunging in, in what the energy secretary, Steven Chu, calls the hunt for miracles. 

The work is part of the mission of the new Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, which is intended to finance high-risk, high-reward projects. 

The goal of this agency, whose budget is $400 million for two years, is to realize profound results — such as tens of millions of motor vehicles that would run 300 miles a day on electricity from clean sources or on liquid fuels from trees and garbage."

WILDLIFE, HUMAN AND ECOSYSTEM IMPACTS

Murky Relationships Mark Scientific Efforts to Assess Gulf Spill's Impacts


ALASKA


Arctic villages stop seismic tests as Canada mulls oil future

"...five Inuit villages have won a court order that blocks a German icebreaker from conducting seismic tests of an underwater region that abounds with marine life — and possibly with oil, gas and minerals."

FLORIDA


Florida Weighs Billing BP More Than $1 Billion to Plug Fund Gap