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Dispersal of Oil Means Cleanup to Take Years, Official Says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 7th, 2010
New York Times: Although the Coast Guard had trained for the possibility of cleaning up a disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it had never anticipated that oil would spread across such a broad area and break up into hundreds of thousands of patches as the current spill has done, the commander heading the federal response to the spill said Monday. "It's the breadth and complexity of the disaggregation of the oil" that is now posing the greatest clean-up challenge, the commander, Adm. Thad W. ...
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BP’s Deepwater Horizon costs hit $1.25bn
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 7th, 2010
Guardian: <figure> <figcaption>Protesters yesterday outside a BP station in Florida. The company, and its chief executive Tony Hayward, have been much criticised over its response to the spill. Photograph: Dave Martin/AP</figcaption> </figure> The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has now cost BP $1.25bn (£870m), as its much-criticised chief executive vows to spend "what it takes" to fix the Deepwater Horizon disaster that has caused growing anger across America. The energy company ...
BP says Gulf oil spill costs reach $1.25 billion
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 7th, 2010
Agence France-Presse: British oil giant BP said Monday it had already spent 1.25 billion dollars on efforts to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The company also said in a statement that a cap fitted on a leaking pipe a mile (1,600 metres) down on the sea bed had allowed it to collect 10,500 barrels of oil and bring it to the surface on Saturday. Between June 3 and June 5 BP used the cap to collect a total of 16,600 barrels, the statement added. The firm said the estimated cost of 1.25 ...
Damage Will Go On After Well Is Plugged, Admiral Says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 7th, 2010
New York Times: The Coast Guard commander in charge of the federal response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico warned on Sunday that even if the flow of crude was stopped by summer, it could take well into autumn – and maybe much longer– to deal with the slick spreading relentlessly across the gulf. The assessment came as the sheer volume of oil gushing from the out-of-control well forced BP to temporarily halt its attempts to close all four vents on a capping device designed to capture the oil. ...
BP says currently capturing 11,100 bpd of Gulf oil leak
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 7th, 2010
Reuters: BP Plc said on Monday that its cap system at a seabed oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico captured 11,100 barrels of oil on Sunday, up slightly from the previous 24 hours, and the company planned to increase that amount to 20,000 barrels. The new figure on captured oil is about 58 percent of the high end of an estimate by U.S. scientists who had said the leak was spewing 12,000 to 19,000 barrels a day. It was more than 40 percent of the highest government estimate of 25,000 barrels a ...