Oil leaking 2.52M gallons daily

A government panel of scientists said Tuesday that the Gulf well is leaking between 1.47 million and 2.52 million gallons a day of oil. The increase over previous estimates puts the maximum size of the spill at 2.1 million gallons per day, the Associated Press reports. “This estimate brings together several scientific methodologies and the […]

Risky Decisions Before BP Well Blowout

The choice of a tapered string meant that the well had only two barriers to upward gas flow that could cause a blowout: cement near the bottom of the well and a seal assembly near the top. The congressmen described three flawed decisions relating to the cement, and said the company also decided not to […]

Gulf ‘media blackout’ hits MSM

CBS, CNN, the New York Times — these are not fringe media outlets. And when Anderson Cooper and Katie Couric complain about press barricades, you know that not only is the rumored media blackout very real, but it is clearly also very serious: When reports started trickling in a month ago about journalists being prevented […]

SPILL CAM is ONLINE

The SPILL CAM is back. We can’t stop the spill, but we can watch it on a live webcam. Direct from BP

US Senate upholds greenhouse gas rules ‎

The US Senate on Thursday beat back an effort led by President Barack Obama’s Republican foes to curb the US government’s power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions tied to global warming. After a bitter debate focused on stalled efforts to advance comprehensive legislation to battle climate change, lawmakers voted 53-47 to block action on a […]

BP spill response plans severely flawed

The names and phone numbers of several Texas A&M University marine life specialists are wrong. So are the numbers for marine mammal stranding network offices in Louisiana and Florida, which are no longer in service.  BP’s 582-page regional spill plan for the Gulf, and its 52-page, site-specific plan for the Deepwater Horizon rig are riddled […]

Scientists Challenge BP Containment Claims

Some scientists are taking issue with BP’s statement that a containment cap placed over a gushing well could be capturing “the vast majority” of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. They suggest it’s misleading, if not irresponsible, to make such a statement when the company has acknowledged it doesn’t know how much oil is […]

BP Increases Oil-Capture Rate

BP said it captured 10,500 barrels of oil from its leaking well yesterday, up from 6,077 barrels in the previous 24-hour ending at midnight June 4. The well was estimated by government scientists to be gushing 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day. The spill is the worst oil spill in U.S. history. A “cap” over […]

BP and Feds Withheld Videos Showing Massive Scope of Oil Spill

The images showed a far more dire situation unfolding underwater. The footage filmed by submarines showed three separate leaks, including one that was unleashing a torrent of oil into the Gulf. Coast Guard officials told ABC News that BP refused to allow them to release the more startling images, arguing they were proprietary. But at […]

Scientists confirm deepwater plumes

The lab tests are the most conclusive evidence yet in a vigorous scientific debate about where much of the oil is ending up. The researchers say the extensive layers of oil are sitting far beneath the surface miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. The university is collecting data for National Oceanic […]

SPILL CAM (cap attempt)

We can’t stop the spill, but we can watch it on a live webcam. Direct from BP

What if the Oil Just Kept Flowing?

Of course, this thought experiment suffers from the reality that crude oil prices, in a global market, don’t jump based on a single region’s troubles. In fact, prices are lower now than they were in late March. (And when oil prices do jump, that prompts conservation in rich countries but real economic hardship in poor […]

A Window on the Deep

By 2 a.m. on Wednesday morning, most observers agreed that the wire saw was stuck halfway through cutting the pipe; this was later confirmed by the Coast Guard. By dawn, the big shears came back from the surface and by noon had clamped onto the piece of the fallen riser still spewing oil, in what […]

UN: Fossil-fuel use and feeding world cause greatest environmental impacts

Perhaps controversially, it also calls for a significant shift in diets away from animal based proteins towards more vegetable-based foods in order to dramatically reduce pressures on the environment. Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), which hosts the Panel, said: “Decoupling growth from environmental degradation is the […]

Efforts To End Flow From BP Well Are Over

BP Plc has given up trying to plug its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico any sooner than August, laying out a series of steps to pipe the oil to the surface and ship it ashore for refining, said Thad Allen, the U.S. government’s national commander for the incident. Undersea robots began sawing away […]

BP Tries Again

BP says in the latest procedure, it will use robots to slice off the leaking riser pipe where it connects to the blow-out preventer, the huge stack of valves that sits on the seabed atop the ruptured well. A containment cap with a rubber seal will be placed over the cut riser and will draw […]

Americans should be thanking BP

It is easy to understand American hostility to BP, but it is fundamentally misplaced. Never mind that Transocean and Halliburton were also involved and it seems there is plenty of blame to go round. Never mind that more oil is spilled every year in the Niger Delta, where Shell and Exxon are the big operators, […]

UK Royal Society to re-examine climate change

Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures. The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350-year-old institution’s official position on global warming. It will publish a new “guide to the science of climate change” […]

Matt Simmons Tells Bloomberg Only Way To Contain Oil Leak Is With Small Nuclear Bomb

n his May 28th interview with Bloomberg’s Mark Crumpton and Lori Rothman, Matt Simmons of energy investment bank Simmons & Company, provides some stunning revelations on what is really occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, and proposes that the only effective way to contain the leak is to relieve BP, bring in the military, and […]

The Sun’s Recent Behavior Is Odd, Scientists Baffled

Sunspots, markers of magnetic activity on the sun’s surface, provide a visual proxy to mark the cycle’s evolution, appearing in droves at maximum and all but disappearing at minimum. But the behavior of our host star is not as predictable as all that—the most recent solar minimum was surprisingly deep and long, finally bottoming out […]

BP Suspends “Top Kill” For Second Time After Trying Two Junk Shots

The technician working on the project said Saturday pumping had again been halted and a review of the data so farwas under way. “Right now, I would not be optimistic,” the technician, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the effort. But he added, that if another […]

BP Starts Junk Shot

In a move called a junk shot, the British oil giant added chunks of rubber and other material into drilling mud being pumped into the well to help create pressures great enough to overcome the flow of oil so the well can be capped with cement, said Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer. BP’s Macondo […]

‘Top kill’ to stop Gulf oil spill in ‘very critical’ stage

With the “top kill” timeline stretching on amid what one US official calls a “very critical” period, President Obama said Friday he will send reinforcements to the Gulf Coast within 24 hours to help deal with the massive BP oil spill. BP is already drilling two relief wells, the first of which would not be […]

Matt Simmons “another leak much bigger 5 to 6 miles away”

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Top Kill Has Not Worked Yet. Junk Shot Perhaps Tonight…

Some on BP’s team saw improvement, while others were more skeptical. While mud is pumped into the blowout preventer, some can go down into the well, while some go up and then out of a broken pipe atop the blowout preventer, where oil and gas are leaking. “We have not stopped the flow, so the […]

10 Things You Need (But Don’t Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill

1. Oil rig owner has made $270 million off the oil leak Transocean Ltd., the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig leased by BP, has been flying under the radar in the mainstream blame game. The world’s largest offshore drilling contractor, the company is conveniently headquartered in corporate-friendly Switzerland, and it’s no stranger to oil […]

‘Top Kill’ Effort Seems to Be Working

After days of delays and testing — and the weighing of several options — BP began shooting as much as 50,000 barrels of heavy drilling fluids into the drill pipes and hoses above the well at 1 p.m. Central time. The procedure has worked around the world to stop leaking wells, but never at the […]

The Oil Spill Is Now 29,000 Square Miles

All together, slicks and sheen are possibly covering as much as 28,958 square miles (75,000 km2). That’s an area as big as the state of South Carolina. It’s Day 36 of this fatal incident. Our estimated spill rate of 1.1 million gallons (26,500 barrels) per day, now on the conservative end of the scientific estimates, […]

No global climate pact this year

A global, comprehensive and legally-binding agreement on climate change that was expected to have been finalised in Copenhagen in December last year is unlikely to be delivered in the next climate change conference as well. The outgoing head of the UN climate body, Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Yvo de Boer said on Tuesday […]

Peak Water: the three peaks

“In the same way that peak oil has meant the end of cheap, easy-to-access sources of petroleum, peak water means we are going to have to go further, spend more, and expect less in the realm of freshwater. Peak water reminds us that water, which we used to think was widely available and inexpensive, can […]

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