Archive for the 'Offshore' Category
It’s as if Deepwater Never Happened..
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell August 25th, 2010 in Arctic oil, Deepwater Horizon, Frontier oil exploration, Offshore, Pollution, impact on wildlife, oil spillsWhen the Deepwater disaster occurred in the Gulf of Mexico four months ago, many commentators argued that this was a “game changer” that would change the energy debate forever.
Politicians and the public would realise that the ecological and social cost of offshore drilling was becoming unacceptable, the thinking went.
If you morph the lessons of the [...]
Ability to Find New Reserves Now on a “Knife Edge”
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell August 13th, 2010 in BP, Deep offshore, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Offshore, Oil supplies, oil industry outlookWell we always knew that the oil spill disaster would have severe repercussions for the industry, a fact now conceded by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The IEA has warned that the spill from BP’s Macondo’s well “places the ability of the industry to access important new reserves on a knife edge“.
Its latest monthly oil market [...]
Lawyers not yet born look set to work on this one too
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell August 11th, 2010 in BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Litigation, Offshore, Pollution, oil spillsWhen the Exxon Valdez oil spill happened the chair of the Trustees panel said simply: “lawyers not yet born will work on this one”.
His prediction essentially came true as the spill lawsuits grinded backwards and forwards through the courts as Exxon did everything in its power to delay and derail the legal process.
As the focus [...]
“Of particular concern is the ability to stop a blowout once it has begun.”
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell August 10th, 2010 in BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Offshore, Pollution, oil spillsWhen Time magazine compiled a list of its “Dirty Dozen” people it held responsible for BP’s oil spill it is hardly surprising that BP’s two recent CEOs John Browne and Tony Hayward topped the list.
Number three on the list, though, was a name most people had never heard of: Chris Oynes.
Oynes was the top Interior [...]
Scientists Attack White House Spin
1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell August 6th, 2010 in BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Offshore, Pollution, oil spillsThe fall-out continues from the US government report saying that 75 per cent of the spilled oil from BP’s macondo well has gone.
Scientists say it is “just not true” that the vast majority of oil from the BP spill has gone and in fact the opposite is true – that up to 75 per cent [...]
