BP Oil Spill 2010: Latest News, PHOTOS

The BP oil spill has had devastating effects to the environment as well as humans and wildlife in the Gulf region.

Today it was revealed that the oil spill has tripled in size in the past three days. Efforts to fight the spill continue.

The economic effect of the BP oil spill has been significant as well. BP alone has lost $25 billion in market value and there are serious concerns about Gulf fishing and the seafood industry.

The oil spill was caused by an explosion at an offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The leak is releasing some 5,000 barrels of oil per day, and efforts to manage the spill with controlled burning, dispersal and plugging the leak have been unsuccessful.

This oil spill could become the worst oil spill in history, surpassing the damage done by the Exxon Valdez tanker that spilled 11 million gallons of oil into the ecologically sensitive Prince William Sound in 1989.

Here is some of the latest BP oil spill news in photos.

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[Hodieb Khalifa]

08:43 AM on 06/16/2010

The following solution can end BP NIGHTMARE instantly!

As an expert in the oilfields in the Middle East, I've already offered BP the following simple technique that can instantly plug the well.

Though BP admitted it can work, it wouldn't implement it because it will kill the Well; whereas they still plan to exploit it.

PLUGGING BP WELL BY A STRING OF CEMENT-FILLED CASING PIPES:

{BP has to lower in the wellbore through the Riser Pipe Stub and the Blowout Preventer a string of 18" Casing Pipes connected together 500 - 1000 ft long after being filled with cement. The wild well will instantly be plugged and there will be no need for the Relief Wells. The small annular space between the Casing Pipe String and the well walls will be filled by injecting cement. The whole operation will take a few hours. They have large assortment on their ships and platfoems in the Gulf}.

I want to face Tony Hayward during a Senate or House hearing. I want him to admit that this technique will succeed and that BP has wasted 2 months in vain, then my technique will be implemented by BP in the presence of US officials and me, and the NIGHTMARE will end in few hours.

GOD bless you and bless America.

Eng. Hodieb Khalifa

Cairo - Egypt

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[BOB2426]

05:05 PM on 05/03/2010

WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE WORLD !!!! THE WORLD IS COMING TO END SOON