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But the drilling process involves many other steps beyond breaking up
rock — and several opportunities for things to go wrong.
FPL wants to build major gas pipeline in state
TALLAHASSEE — With utilities relying heavily on natural gas to
fuel power plants, Florida Power & Light is pursuing a plan to add a major
new pipeline that would stretch across hundreds of miles of the state.
Officials seek gas source
Dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas was detected Friday in fumes
coming from crude oil drawn from an investigatory well tapped into a
Texas Brine Co. LLC salt cavern in northern Assumption Parish, company
and parish officials said.
Flaring at Shell Chemical plant in Norco to continue through Sunday
A malfunctioning Shell Chemical unit located on the Motiva
Enterprises campus in Norco that lost power on Thursday was restarted
about 10 p.m. Saturday, according to a news release from the company.
The company warned residents that the flaring and smoke that had
preceded Thursday’s power outage will continue through Sunday.
New evidence suggests BP knowingly downplayed huge scale of oil
leak in 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster
Documents that will be presented to court in February appear to show
that BP knew about the massive scale of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil
blowout weeks earlier than previously stated.
Gulf waters and oil workers must be safe: Frances Beinecke
From out of the Gulf of Mexico this fall come two tragic lessons
about offshore drilling. First, we, as a nation, can’t tolerate companies that
put our workers, waters and wildlife at needless risk. And, second, we’ve
got a long way to go to minimize those risks.
Official: Federal draft on Keystone pipeline due in ‘near future’
A preliminary decision from the U.S. State Department on the fate of
the Keystone XL pipeline project is coming soon, catching some by
surprise because Nebraska’s review of the controversial project is not yet
done.