Today marks the first anniversary of the worst environmental catastrophe in the history of the US. But, unfortunately, most Americans, including our politicians, are suffering from collective amnesia about that tragic event.
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 06.05.2011
The project manager for Det Norske Veritas, the company who led the investigation of the BOP, admitted an error in the computer model they used to determine the cause of failure of the BOP during the BP well blowout last April.
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
The US government is currently issuing permits to drill knowing full well that operators are using blowout preventers that are insufficiently designed to shut in blown out deepwater wells.
AP | By HARRY R. WEBER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS -- A federal probe has found that a trapped piece of drill pipe prevented a key failsafe device from properly sealing off the blown oil we...
AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. government disclosed Friday it is investigating whether a Transocean worker's handling of a key a piece of evidence in th...
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
A common theme in a new report on Deepwater Horizon is that poor decision making, complacency and over confidence in BP's organization created an environment for an increasingly dangerous oil well.
AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW ORLEANS — The Justice Department won't say if the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP's undersea well into the Gu...
AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators...
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
Admiral Allen announced today that BP's fishing job being undertaken on their Mississippi Canyon Block 252 well has been called off due to total failu...
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI | Posted 05.25.2011
HOUSTON (AP) -- A critical device at the center of an investigation into the Gulf oil rig explosion didn't undergo a rigorous recertification process ...
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
It seems that Steve Chu, the Nobel Prizing-winning Secretary of Energy and his staff of advisors have been exercising what I consider to be questionable risk management with regard to the BP oil gusher.
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
In his presser this morning, Adm. Allen announced that they are still trying to decide what to do about the relief well. Dithering seems a strong word, but I'm going to use it now.
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
Until these questions are answered by BP, we have no real information to tell us that the well is dead, or even safe.
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
I have now been listening to both BP and government representatives for two weeks explaining the static kill, and have yet to hear an intelligent, cogent argument for why they're doing this.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Two congressmen say that BP's internal investigation into the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has identified new warning signs of p...
AP | ERICA WERNER and KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The White House has tapped former Florida Sen. Bob Graham and ex-EPA Administrator William K. Reilly to lead a presidential commiss...
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
Aside from the tens of thousands of barrels roaring into the Gulf unabated, BP are taking huge risks in further damage to the well by undertaking an operation whose objectives are still not clear.
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
I've been saying for weeks now that the US should change its offshore policy to "if you drill here, you live here". How hard is that?
AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Rep. Henry Waxman says that his committee's investigation into the Gulf oil spill reveals that a key safety device, the blowout pre...
AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Rep. Henry Waxman says BP officials provided conflicting accounts of what happened after an oil well didn't pass a negative pressur...
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
BP's latest solution may work, but why did it take 2 1/2 months to build? In one of its presentations, BP said that this was one of the first ideas they had. If that's true, why didn't they just build the thing?
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
For the last 81 days, I've been watching the government, perpetually 2 steps behind BP, fail time after time to keep BP honest, or even understand the...
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
It's time to step back from deepwater development not only until we have a reliable way to keep disasters from happening, but more importantly, until we know how to cope quickly when they do.
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 05.25.2011
I've gotten lots of questions the last week about my posts on the BP blowout of their Mississippi Canyon Block 252 well and how they do all the work o...
Posted 05.25.2011
HOUSTON (AP) -- As engineers bore deeper into the seafloor toward the source of the oil still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC is growing more ...
Robert L. Cavnar | Posted 06.20.2011