Post Tagged with: "oil"
On Creating Jobs, More on Deepwater Horizon and Other Links
Topic of the Day: Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Gulf oil spill likely to reach Florida Keys, Miami, report says – latimes.com Should BP nuke its leaking well? – National Post Scientists confirm Gulf floor is beyond repair and situation in Gulf will get worse Must-read How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late:
Second Large Oil Slick Found As Tropical Storm Alex Approaches
WSJ video courtesy of Fox News. Market Watch says: Tropical storm Alex, after crossing the Yucatan Peninsula, is gathering strength over the warm waters off eastern Mexico and could become a hurricane within the next 24 hours, the National Hurricane Center warned on Monday
The Doctor and the Dealman: An Energy Update
By David Galland, Managing Director, Casey’s Energy Report At first glance, no two individuals could seem more different. The Doctor, middle-aged and balding, could be the very archetype of the college professor. The Dealman is young with a full head of well-styled hair: more than a few people have compared his looks to Elvis in
On how Anadarko is distancing itself from BP and other links
Link of the day Anadarko Says BP Should Pay for Oil Spill After Being Reckless – Bloomberg.com The Usual Fare Wall Street Reform Could Cost Goldman Sachs Billions – Huffington Post The Economist Off the Deep End on BP and "Vladimir Obama" : CJR Tiger Woods Begins Sobbing Uncontrollably On 5th Hole Of U.S. Open
Nuke It!
Matt Simmons says 120,000 barrels a day are leaking from the hole where the Deepwater Horizon rig blew up in April. He also says scientists cannot detect where the well bore was, so the casing in the hole is gone. Simmons says this demonstrates it was not a rig fire but "one of the biggest
BP Downgraded All the Way to BBB By Fitch and Other Links
I will probably be out all morning so posts will be light. But, in the meantime for you double-dip recovery fans I have an old link from last year for you to remind you this has not been a real recovery but a statistical one. Discerning a real from a fake, technical, statistical, or partial
Deepwater Horizon Spill Size Estimates Keep Growing, As Do Costs
John is one of the ten most followed writers at Seeking Alpha and a Senior Contributor at TheStreet.com and Real Money. Last week I tried to bracket the cost exposure for BP as a result of the Deepwater Horizon well head blowout and explosion. That attempt proposed a very wide bracket, from $9 billion to
BP: The Mother of all Egregious Violators
By John Lounsbury. Here is some astounding news: BP PLC (BP) has 97% of the most serious safety violations at U.S. refineries over the past 35 months. In the very top "egregious" category, BP has 99.9% of all violations. Most have occurred at two refineries, Texas City, TX and Toledo, OH. The Texas City refinery
A bad week in the markets; where are we headed next?
I’m going to make a change to the week in review post and talk a little bit about the week that was and how the posts from the past week fit into those events. This was a big week of posting and all of the links in this post are from the last week’s posts
Links on the European Debt Crisis, Deepwater Horizon and more
Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Production by Water Depth – Paul Kedrosky 1997 Warning on Deep Blowouts: ‘Options Are Limited’ – Dot Earth Blog – NYTimes.com WELL CONTROL Ultra-deepwater blowouts – how could one happen – Offshore Leck im Golf von Mexiko: USA rechnen mit größter Umweltverschmutzung aller Zeiten | FTD.de BP’s costs could spiral to
Parallels between 1979 Ixtoc disaster and Deepwater Horizon
All of the techniques now being used to plug the oil spill in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in Macondo Prospect were tried 31 years ago with Ixtoc I and they failed. It was only when relief wells came online 10 months after the disaster began that the Ixtoc spill could be capped
How BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil find was originally reported in September 2009
Below are a few media reports from September 2009 discussing the BP Gulf of Mexico Tiber Oil Field find when it originally hit the newswires. This was the deepest oil and gas well in human history, going to a depth of 35,000 feet. Exploratory drilling began in March 2009. Deepwater Horizon did not commence until