May 29 BP’s Suttles: ‘Top Kill’ Effort Fails to Stop Oil; Leak Meter Restarted By News Desk Updated May 30, 9:15 am ET In a Saturday evening press conference, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles and Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said that the "top kill" effort to stem the Gulf oil spill had failed after… Continue reading
May 27 Liveblogging Oil Leak Developments: Spill Now Worst in U.S. History By Quinn Bowman UPDATED: 6:13 PM: The New York Times is reporting that the top kill procedure has been halted by BP Thursday afternoon "when engineers saw that too much of the drilling fluid they were injecting into the well was escaping… Continue reading
May 26 Wednesday: BP Prepares to Plug Leak; Clinton Calls for Response to N. Korea By Jason Breslow Bags of oil collected from the beach await pickup Tuesday at Elmer's Island, Louisiana. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. If all goes according to plan, BP on Wednesday will attempt to plug the leak that has been gushing oil into… Continue reading
May 25 Gulf Coast Oil Leak: What Are Your Suggestions? By Hari Sreenivasan As the Gulf Coast oil leak continues, we want to hear your thoughts on the best way to stop the spill and also how to clean up the oil that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Continue reading
May 21 Live from the Ocean Floor: New Oil Leak Widget Features ‘Spillcam’ By Hari Sreenivasan BP's live video stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is simultaneously tragic and hypnotic. With each passing second, more gallons of crude oil and natural gas escape into the ocean. Until Thursday, BP and NOAA had… Continue reading
May 21 Government, BP to Revise Estimated Rate of Oil Leak By Lea Winerman Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA, inspects oil-covered reeds along the Gulf of Mexico; John Moore/Getty Images Questions continued to swirl over the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, as BP and the Coast Guard announced Friday that… Continue reading
May 21 Video: Live Feed of Oil Leak Released, BP Raises Siphoning Estimate By Jason Breslow UPDATE: 1:27 a.m. ET Friday BP has posted a new live stream shown below. This stream is intermittent, and requires Windows Media Player. (updated 6/8/2010 with Ustream.tv feed of the spill.)… Continue reading
May 17 How Much Difference Do 2,000 Barrels a Day Make for Containment Efforts? By Chris Amico With BP reporting some success in siphoning off oil leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon well, we've updated our Gulf Leak Meter to reflect a slightly slowed rate of leakage. Updated May 18, 4:30 p.m. | BP… Continue reading
May 14 Extent of Oil Spill Remains Unclear By Lea Winerman Nearly a month after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, one question remains unanswered: Exactly how much oil is spilling into the Gulf from the unchecked leak? A 30-second video released Wednesday… Continue reading
May 12 New Video, Images Show Deepwater Horizon Oil Leak in Dismal Detail By Chris Amico British Petroleum has released new video and images of one of the oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico. We aired a clip on Wednesday's PBS Newshour and our source was this video via the Joint Information Center. Continue reading