Jul 20 With Gulf Well Capped, Oil Flow Rate May Remain a Mystery By Chris Amico We may never know how much oil really leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. Over the weekend came news that BP may be able… Continue reading
Jul 20 Tuesday: Concern Remains on Oil Cap; Senate to Vote on Jobless Benefits The federal government and BP continue to keep a close eye on the cap over the broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The cap, though still mostly holding in oil, has some scientists worried. The New Orleans… Continue reading
Jul 19 Oil Well Will Stay Closed Another Day as Monitoring Continues BP will keep the cap closed for at least 24 more hours on its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said in a news conference Monday afternoon. The cap has been closed since… Continue reading
Jul 19 Monday: Seep Detected Near BP Oil Well; Cap to Stay for Another 24 Hours Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday morning that BP will be allowed to keep the cap on the oil well in the Gulf of Mexico for another day despite a seep in the sea floor. BP… Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch Browner on Tensions With BP: 'They Work at Our Direction' Four days after a new containment cap halted the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP and the government are clashing over how to proceed as seepage has been spotted in the vicinity of the well. Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch BP, Government Bump Heads Over Next Steps for Oil Cap BP was granted an additional 24 hours to keep the Gulf of Mexico oil well containment cap sealed, but something appears to be seeping from the seafloor about two miles away. Judy Woodruff reports. Continue watching
Jul 18 BP Says It Plans to Keep Well Cap Closed; Gulf Leak Ticker Stays Paused By News Desk A Transocean Ltd. Development Driller III rig works to drill a relief well to plug the damaged Macondo well; Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Updated 12:46 p.m. ET | BP said Sunday morning that tests on a 75-ton… Continue reading
Jul 17 Oil Well Testing to Continue for Additional 24 Hours By Maureen Hoch After two days of waiting and watching as a containment cap kept new oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since a spill disaster began, officials decided Saturday to extend a test on BP's… Continue reading
Jul 16 For Fishermen on Louisiana's Coast, Guarded Optimism on an Oil Fix By Tom Bearden Out-of-work fishermen do maintenance on their boats at the Delta Marina in Empire, La. "At least we're taking more oil out of the Gulf than is going in," says Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish. Cautiously optimistic. Pleased, but guarded. Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch the Oil Leak Stop in High Speed By Travis Daub In real time, it was difficult to see the exact moment that oil stopped flowing from BP's broken wellhead in the Gulf. So we built this time lapse video -- compressing three hours of our live stream into a… Continue reading