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Officials say vent wells burning off gas trapped in an aquifer in
Assumption Parish have removed slightly more than 2.7 million cubic feet
of gas since flaring began.
Ex-BP executive seeks trial delay in spill case
A former BP executive is asking a federal judge to postpone his trial
on charges he concealed information from Congress about the amount of
oil that was spewing from the company’s blown-out well in 2010.
BP Oil Spill: Supervisors’ Case Gets New Judge After Halliburton
Connection Revealed
A new judge was assigned Wednesday to the case against two BP
supervisors charged in the deaths of 11 workers aboard the Deepwater
Horizon drilling rig in 2010, after the previous judge disclosed his wife
owns stock in one of the contractors.
Scientific Papers Share Lessons Learned from the BP Oil Spill
A collection of papers now out in the journal Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) looks at the response to the
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010, examining whether it was successful
and how it could be improved. The release of the reports comes just days
after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suspended BP from
obtaining new U.S. contracts due to its “lack of business integrity”
following the Deepwater Horizon accident that killed 11 workers. After
the explosion, the rig’s Macondo well began gushing crude oil, a leak that
would continue for nearly three months. Uncertainty surrounding the flow
rate of the leaking oil was a key problem during the disaster, prompting
these U.S. government scientists to recommend that future drilling permits
require mechanisms to assess the flow rate.
Government agency has yet to conduct audit of safety systems for
offshore oil operators
It’s been more than a year since offshore oil and gas operators had to
have new safety systems in place; more than a year since a revamped
federal agency got the power to audit them.
Bahamas: Cargo ship spilled 3,000 gallons of oil