Oil disaster

BP Oil Spill Aftermath: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Fish with Oozing Sores

Al Jazeera just published an astonishing report on the after-effects of the BP oil disaster, and it’s not pretty. There are an alarming number of deformities in sea creatures: mutated shrimp, fish with sores and lesions, eyeless crabs and more. It’s unlike anything local fisherman have ever seen. How bad is it? The effect that…

Tech News Casey Chan

BP CEO Thinks Last Year Was Almost the Company’s Best

Ah man, don’t you hate those days where everything goes totally right except for when you, I dunno, step in a puddle? BP CEO Bob Dudley feels like that about BP in 2010, except his “puddle” was an environmental armageddon. The executive’s spectacularly tone-deaf remark closes out Fortune’s excellent investigative piece on the BP oil…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Using Power Plant Waste To Clean Up the Gulf

How are we going to clean up the Gulf oil mess? Easy. With waste material from power plants, of course. Oh, and it’s a certifiably eco-friendly method. That’s right: we’re finally getting a real-life toxic avenger. The material, called flyash, will absorb the oil that’s coating the waters of the Gulf, which can then be…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Watch BP’s Latest Attempt To Plug The Oil Spill

Since a containment cap wasn’t the final solution, BP’s making yet another attempt to plug the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf once and for all using a lot of mud and cement. You can watch the whole thing here. The live stream above shows BP’s attempt to permanently stop the flow of oil by…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

“Critical Alarm System” Turned Off Before Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Explosion

BP knew about the Deepwater Horizon oil rig’s safety risks a year while ago. So, naturally, the “critical alarm system” that would’ve warned workers bad things are happening was intentionally disabled before the explosion that took down the rig. The rig’s chief electrician, Michael Williams, testified yesterday that the alarm system was “inhibited,” its automaticness…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Cleaning Up the Gulf Oil Disaster With Dustbusters

How is the scrappy Plaquemines Parish Inland Waterway Strike Force cleaning up BP’s mess as oil creeps into their backyard—the wetlands of southeastern Louisiana? With dustbusters. And they say they’re “knocking the socks off” BP’s cleanup crews. Video: Click to view It’s like trying to drink the ocean—a disgusting, fouled ocean—with a straw. Check out…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

BP Admits Altering Multiple Official Images

BP has acknowledged their practice of photoshopping some of the official images of their Deepwater Horizon clean-up efforts, and has vowed to stop manipulating photographs going forward. They’ve also created a Flickr account where you can see the unaltered originals. The issue surfaced two days ago, when Americablog first unearthed a doctored photo of BP’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett

BP’s Photoshopped Crisis Command Center Is Terrible On Every Level

This image was posted on BP’s main website until yesterday. Look at all of those people working so hard to stem the oil disaster! Now look a little closer. Now be appalled that it’s egregiously—and very poorly—photoshopped. UPDATED: Americablog first caught the deception, which wasn’t terribly hard to catch given what a sloppy job BP…

Tech News Brian Barrett

BP well has been capped, and has stopped gushing oil

A new cap (pictured) was lowered into place Monday over BP’s gushing oil well in the Gulf, and today was temporarily sealed. For the first time in three months, oil is not gushing into the ocean from this disaster. Don’t get too excited, though. Using the cap to close off the well is just part…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Oil Leak Could Transform Repairmen Into Superheroes

For the first time in our nation’s history, our hopes and dreams and economic fate rest, not on a warrior or a politician or an astronaut, but on a team of repairmen. The effort to seal the ruptured oil well in the Gulf is the grandest and highest-profile repair job since the Apollo 13 duct-tape…

Tech News Kyle Wiens - Wired

BP Successfully Stops Oil Flow

According to BP officials, the implementation of their latest containment seal at the Deepwater Horizon rig has been successful. That means that for the first time in months, no new oil is gushing into the Gulf. https://gizmodo.com/bps-new-fix-today-another-containment-cap-5584865 BP still has to conduct pressure tests to make sure that the well bore is intact. That will…

Tech News Brian Barrett

New Containment Cap Placed on Gulf Oil Gusher

Looks like BP has successfully placed a new containment cap onto that oil gusher in the Gulf. It’ll take some tests and time before we know if this cap is actually effective though. [MSNBC via Breaking News] https://gizmodo.com/bps-new-fix-today-another-containment-cap-5584865

Tech News Rosa Golijan

BP’s New Fix Today: Another Containment Cap

This morning will mark BP’s umpteenth attempt at containing the ecological disaster they created months ago. And because they’re out of new ideas, they’re just trading in their kinda-working sealing cap for a (hopefully) better one. https://gizmodo.com/bps-new-containment-cap-is-kinda-working-5556307 While the cap is going on at some point today, it’ll be another 48 hours or so until…

Tech News Brian Barrett

How BP’s Deepwater Horizon Failsafe Failed

It’s been two months since BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig started spewing toxicity into the Gulf of Mexico. And we’re just now learning how the rig’s last line of defense failed to prevent one modern history’s biggest ecological disasters. The video above, from the NY Times, outlines how Deepwater Horizon’s blowout preventer—and more specifically, the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

What 25,000 Barrels of Oil a Day Looks Like

Estimates of how much of BP’s oil is gushing into the gulf each day range from 25,000 to 40,000 barrels’ worth a day. Here’s what the low end of that looks like stacked to the heavens. The animation was made using the Unreal Development Kit, and simulates 25,000 barrels stacked 15,000 feet into the air,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

BP Takes PR Lessons From Domino’s

Click to viewWhy fix the spill when you can fix the brand? That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it? We’ve seen how BP deals with coffee spills. Here’s how they deal with rebranding. This College Humor video stands pretty well on its own, but for reference here’s the Domino’s video they’re spoofing: Although honestly,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

BP Purchases 32 of Kevin Costner’s Oil-Water Separation Machines

Laugh you may have when you heard that Kevin Costner was stepping into BP’s oil spill disaster with a potential solution, but BP has now snapped up 32 of the centrifuge machines to help separate the oil from the water. The technology was created by Costner’s brother, with the actor pumping in $20m over 15…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Lightning Strikes BP Ship, Halts Oil Containment Efforts

There are reports that BP was forced to temporarily pause oil collection and containment efforts in the Gulf as a precautionary measure earlier. This was apparently because lightning struck one of the company’s ships and resulted in a fire. [WSJ] Image by igb and used for illustrative purposes. Not actually the ship in question.

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Why James Cameron Can Be the Gulf’s White Knight

James Cameron’s announcement last week that he was assembling a veritable Justice League of oceanographers, engineers, and other specialists to combat the BP oil disaster was met with some eye-rolling. But he may be the best man for the job. Cameron spoke with the New York Times recently to clarify the role he wants to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

BP, the Man

From the apparently fantastic Mike Mitchell, cropped for your (HVGA) smartphone wallpapering convenience. For your own crops, here’s the full-size source image, in all its spewing glory.

Tech News John Herrman

Oil disaster

BP Oil Spill Aftermath: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs and Fish with Oozing Sores

BP CEO Thinks Last Year Was Almost the Company’s Best

Using Power Plant Waste To Clean Up the Gulf

Watch BP’s Latest Attempt To Plug The Oil Spill

“Critical Alarm System” Turned Off Before Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Explosion

Cleaning Up the Gulf Oil Disaster With Dustbusters

BP Admits Altering Multiple Official Images

BP’s Photoshopped Crisis Command Center Is Terrible On Every Level

BP well has been capped, and has stopped gushing oil

Oil Leak Could Transform Repairmen Into Superheroes

BP Successfully Stops Oil Flow

New Containment Cap Placed on Gulf Oil Gusher

BP’s New Fix Today: Another Containment Cap

How BP’s Deepwater Horizon Failsafe Failed

What 25,000 Barrels of Oil a Day Looks Like

BP Takes PR Lessons From Domino’s

BP Purchases 32 of Kevin Costner’s Oil-Water Separation Machines

Lightning Strikes BP Ship, Halts Oil Containment Efforts

Why James Cameron Can Be the Gulf’s White Knight

BP, the Man

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