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Search results for "oil rig" ...
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A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea
The book tells how the government and BP responded to an emergency unlike anything encountered before in the history of petroleum engineering: a blowout in imle-deep water. The book chronicles the 87-day effort to cap the Macondo well after the explosion on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon.
Tags: Deepwater Horizon; BP; oil rig; drilling; Macondo well
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Drowning in Oil: BP and the Reckless Pursuit of Profit
The book examines the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig accident and puts it in context of BP's failures and maintenance lapses. It reveals how BP's culture of cutting corners led to the disaster.
Tags: BP; Deepwater Horizon; offshore rig; oil spill
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Deep Trouble
The Journal's initial coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill posed many questions about the impact of the spill. It also revealed that the Deepwater Horizon rig didn't have a remote-control shut-off switch, a feature used as a last-resort protection against oil spills.
Tags: oil; Gulf Oil Spill; Deepwater Horizon; oil spill; oil rig
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The Blowout
Three-and-a-half weeks after the Deepwater Horizon blowout, 60 Minutes gave an accurate depiction of what happened. Michael Williams, the rig's chief electronics technician, described key events he had witnessed in the weeks leading up to the disaster.
Tags: Deepwater Horizon; blowout; oil rig; accident reports; oil drilling; environmental disaster
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Oil Spill
The New York Times' continuing coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill documents the vulnerabilities, weaknesses, loopholes, and oversight that led the disaster.
Tags: Gulf Oil Spill; oil spill; BP; Transocean; oil rig
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Hurricane Coverage
Substandard and poorly enforced building codes led to houses that were unsafe during hurricanes in Mobile, Alabama. Gaps were also found in the county's evacuation plan and in the sturdiness of oil rigs constructed in the Gulf of Mexico.
Tags: hurricane; oil rigs; gas rigs; building codes; Hurricane Katrina
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San Diego Magazine explores the link between off-shore oil drilling, which is accelerating under the Reagan administration, and air pollution and toxic wastes generated by the oil rigs. The magazine uncovers lax testing by the EPA and other agencies.
Tags: environment; EPA; pollution; oil