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Oil flows freely as BP works to replace cap

Oil flows freely as BP works to replace cap

BP said today its attempt to place a new cap on its ruptured undersea well was proceeding as planned. But while robots replace the old cap, crude is flowing freely.

 

BP Executive Prepares to Take Over Spill Response

BP Executive Prepares to Take Over Spill Response

Robert Dudley, who will take charge of BP’s spill response, has plenty of experience dealing with a hostile government, unhappy partners and angry citizens.

 

Rig owner attacks Obama, BP executive heckled

The owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which is spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, on Tuesday criticized President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deepwater drilling.

 

Tony Hayward replaced by BP as head of its oil cleanup effort

Tony Hayward replaced by BP as head of its oil cleanup effort

A day after its chief executive's widely panned appearance before Congress, BP said Friday that it would replace Tony Hayward as head of its oil-spill cleanup effort.

 

BP's Tony Hayward: Gulf oil spill 'never should have happened'

BP's Tony Hayward: Gulf oil spill 'never should have happened'

In prepared testimony before a House panel that is expected to question him harshly Thursday, BP chief executive Tony Hayward says the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico "never should have happened" and has left him ...

 

Obama previews oil spill address in Florida visit

The president says he'll discuss how BP must pay claims "fairly and quickly" to compensate oil spill victims. He also says he'll name separate commanders for Florida, Alabama and Louisiana to speed response to states' residents.

President Obama previewed part of his Oval Office address in an appearance here Tuesday morning, saying he will talk about the need for BP to pay out claims "quickly and fairly'' to compensate victims of the worst environmental disaster in U.S.

 

BP has plenty of money to pay spill damages

The  cost of cleaning the Gulf oil spill and compensating its victims won’t be known for years.

 

Gulf oil spill figures may be double earlier estimates

Gulf oil spill figures may be double earlier estimates

Government scientists say as many as 40,000 barrels of oil per day have been gushing into the gulf. BP has said the blown-out well will not be plugged before August.

Government scientists said Thursday that as many as 40,000 barrels of oil have been flowing daily from the blown-out BP well, doubling earlier estimates and greatly expanding the scope of what is already the largest spill in U.S.

 

Less Than 1% of Oil-Soaked Birds Survive

Less Than 1% of Oil-Soaked Birds Survive

"According to serious studies, the middle-term survival rate of oil-soaked birds is under 1 percent," says Silvia Gaus, a biologist at the Wattenmeer National Park along the North Sea in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

 

Coast Guard says more oil being captured in Gulf

Coast Guard says more oil being captured in Gulf

The cap on the damaged BP oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico is now keeping up to 462,000 gallons of oil a day from leaking into the ...

 

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