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
Jul 16 The Oil Cap Is Holding — Now What? By Chris Amico For now, at least, there is no oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. That could last until Saturday, if BP carries out its well integrity test for a full 48 hours. Engineers are checking pressure inside the well… Continue reading
Jul 16 BP Continues to Monitor Cap; Encouraged by Early Results By Tom LeGro Updated 5:33 p.m. ET The results of pressure tests on the shut-in oil well have not been ideal over the past 24 hours, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said Friday afternoon -- but the well will remain closed… Continue reading
Jul 16 Watch Containment Cap Holds Steady as Work on Relief Wells Continues With the new oil well containment cap in place for the past 24 hours and no new signs of oil leaking into the Gulf, President Obama called the news hopeful but reaffirmed the need for a permanent solution. Tom Bearden… Continue watching
Jul 15 Watch Oil Gusher Halted At Least for Now: ‘Something Went Right’ For the first time since April, the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico stopped -- at least temporarily -- Thursday after BP sealed a containment cap during the start of pressure tests on the device. Joel Achenbach of… Continue watching
Jul 15 BP Holding Back Oil, for Now; Ticker Stands Still By Chris Amico News agencies report: Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said at a news briefing that oil stopped flowing into the water at 2:25 p.m. CDT after engineers gradually dialed down the amount of crude escaping through the last… Continue reading
Jul 15 BP Set to Begin Test on New Well Cap Capping stack departs June 29 from its construction site in Berwick, La. (Photo by BP) BP again plans to ramp up testing of its newest well cap system Thursday. The multi-stage test, which will take 48 hours, will… Continue reading
Jul 14 Cousteau Returns to Gulf to Survey Oil Damage By Hari Sreenivasan Oceanographer and documentary filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau recently checked in with the Rundown to update us on his team's explorations since returning to the Gulf Coast. Since his last visit, Cousteau has been both on the water with… Continue reading
Jul 14 Fed to Gulf Coast Banks: Help Those Hurt by the Spill By Chris Amico The Federal Reserve urged Gulf Coast banks Wednesday to help customers get through what is sure to be a tough road ahead economically due to the ongoing oil disaster. In response to this disaster, financial institutions can… Continue reading