Gulf oil spill: More equipment needed at BP spill site

BP won’t have the capacity to capture most of the oil now thought to be flowing from the busted gulf oil well for several more weeks, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Friday. A containment cap is now funneling a little more than 15,000 barrels a day of oil from the gulf floor to the processing ship Enterprise, less than half the amount that may be spurting from the blown-out well head.

Federal scientists Thursday released revised estimates of the well flow, saying between 20,000 and 40,000 barrels -- 840,000 to 1.7 million gallons -- could be leaking daily. That far exceeds the capacity of the Enterprise, which can process and burn about 18,000 barrels a day.

The company is bringing in a platform vessel that by next week will add another 10,000 barrels of capacity. More ships will follow, but Allen said it won't be until early July that BP will have enough equipment at the spill site to handle all the crude that may be gushing from the well.

BP announced earlier this week that it would donate its share of revenues from selling the captured oil to a new wildlife protection and restoration fund.

Two other companies, Andarko Petroleum Corp. and MOEX Offshore 2007, Inc. own a share in the lease for the area and could be entitled to 25% and 10%, respectively, of the revenue.

Rep. Nick J. Rahall II (D-W.Va.), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, Thursday sent letters to the two companies requesting that they, “follow BP’s lead and donate [their] share of net revenues to help the people and environment of the Gulf.”

-- Jennifer Martinez

 

Comments

[cash money sheral]

i wish they would just fix this already i dont think there even trying

[ROBERT DAVIS]

Mike Huckabee had an hour show Saturday showing all the new technologies that could have been used from day 1 that the dumb Obama adm would not let them use due to Union pressures not wanting foreign workers coming into the US to use the skimmers and other technologies. This could have contained this entire spill to one or two miles from the well. How can we survive crisis with a President and staff as dumb as Obama?? He is all politics and no leadership and totally void of any management skills or experience. What a disaster he has been for the Democratic party. He is putting them back 50 years with his inept and imcompentent administration. Cannot wait for November to vote against Boxer and Pelos1!! They are worse than Obama.

[Paul Taylor Examiner]

Environmental groups take tax deductible donations from you and industry to operate global fear-mongering campaigns about the problems of pollution, species extinction and climate change. These eco-groups also lobby intensely for costly government regulations to fix environmental problems. Elite green groups have traded their green “seals of approval” for donations as marketing tools to industry – including to corporate oil companies. The green lobbies have grown to some $1.5 billion in annual tax-exempt assets with the advent of selling “green cred” to industry.

The Washington Post and The Economist have recently reported on the cozy relationships between eco-groups and corporate interests such as BP (British Petroleum). BP is responsible for one of the largest and most ecologically-destructive pollution incidents in history. Oil soaked ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico will be disrupted or dead for years to come. Some of the most politically-influential and wealthy eco-groups have taken tens of millions of dollars from BP, and formed “donor alliances” with other big oil operators to assure continuing corporate cash donations. At some point, these sales of green group endorsements to corporations become a clear conflict of environmental interests.

As a matter of good faith dealing and integrity, green groups should return the millions of dollars in donations from BP. And, BP should apply those millions to the cleanup and recovery in the Gulf of Mexico. Here are a few of the reported BP money and other corporate entanglements that directly benefitted big eco-groups:

· The Nature Conservancy has taken about $10 million in cash and land from BP;
· Conservation International took over $2 million from BP;
· The Environmental Defense Fund (Environmental Defense) campaigned with BP for government carbon cap-and-trade regulations through the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), an alliance of eco-groups and corporate carbon trading ventures;
· USCAP involvements include the Nature Conservancy, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Natural Resources Defense Council and the World Resources Institute;
· BP had energy business relationships with the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society.

In addition, President Obama was the top recipient of BP campaign money during the 2008 presidential election. Obama collected $71,000, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics. The Obama campaign should return all of its BP money.

[BreakingNewsBlog.us]

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READ THIS AMAZING SCOOP ABOUT HOW BP WOULD BEEN ABLE TO STOP THE OIL SPILL FROM THE EARLY DAYS !!!
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ARTICLE and VIDEO that shows the BP tool, here: http://bit.ly/c8y9GX
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WHY the Press hasn't seen it in the BP video??? WHY the Press STILL don't talks about that??? is BP so powerful???
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[Elly]

How about a "match?" In all honesty - BP is considering BURNING the oil? What kind of environmental cleanup is that???