Deepwater Oil Spill - Problems with the LMRP cap

BP issued a press release this morning that read: NEW ORLEANS -- This morning at approximately 8:45 a.m. CDT, a discharge of liquids was...

Deepwater Oil Spill - closing the relief ports

The rate of oil recovery from the Deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico has increased from the 6,000 bd recovered on Friday, to some 10,000 b...

Deepwater Oil Spill - sealing the cap and jet pumps

There has not been much change down on the sea bed where last evening BP were able to put a cap onto the short riser section coming out of t...

Deepwater Oil Spill - capping the riser - Part 1

The vertical section of the riser was cut, using a Shear at 9 am this morning. Lower Riser Assembly (LRA) atop the Blowout Preventer (BOP...

Deepwater Oil Spill - cutting metal underwater

The decision to cut the riser and drill pipe (DP) from the top of the Blow-Out Preventer (BOP) as a first step in putting the Lower Marine ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - why Top Kill may have failed

The Top Kill attempts have failed, and the Government has a response . He (President Obama) said US Energy Secretary Steven Chu was leading...

Deepwater Oil Spill - the end of Top Kill

BP and Admiral Landry just held a Press Conference in which they said that, based on a decision 90 minutes ago, by the “best and brightest m...

The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill - the Top Kill attempt

The next attempt to shut off the flow from the leaking BP well in the Gulf is still aimed to occur early Wednesday . The attempt will use th...