...safely and responsibly...When we design ANY well the ground water is protected by multiple layers of steel and cement...
Monday, May 03, 2010 (click here)
Halliburton Cement Technique: Suspect In Gulf Oil Spill
Halliburton Company was handling the cementing process on the rig and the procedure is coming under scrutiny as a possible cause of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico that has led to one of the biggest oil spills in U.S. history. Transocean Ltd was hired by British Petroleum (BP) to operate the Deepwater Horizon well. The litigation for damages will involve these three companies pointing fingers at each other....
...Most wells are over a mile and a half deep. There is a tremendous amount of rock between the fraking and the ground water...
In this image made (click here) from video provided by British Petroleum (BP PLC), Wednesday, June 2, 2010, shows the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
...and eleven deaths later...
...and eleven deaths later...
There is still a yet another 'oil sheen' in the Gulf of Mexico.
Shell's second oil leak in North Sea pipeline caused by relief valve
Campaigners and politicians have criticised the oil company for being slow to release information on the spill
Fiona Harvery and Severin Carrell
Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15.03 BST
A relief valve close to the faulty pipeline at Shell's Gannet Alpha oilplatform in the North Sea appears to be the source of a secondary leak that is adding to the worst oil spill in UK waters in a decade.
Green campaigners and members of the Scottish parliament have rounded on the oil company for being slow to release full information on the leak, which was first detected last Wednesday but only disclosed to the public on Friday evening.
Shell said on Tuesday that while the leaking well was "under control", and the main spill had been shut off successfully, a small quantity of oil was still finding its way to the sea by another pathway. After lengthy searching, the valve was pinpointed as the likely source.
Work will continue to dam the small quantities of oil – at up to five barrels a day, a trickle compared with the 1,300 barrels thought to have gushed out in the first days of the leak, but Shell could not say how soon it would be completed. The company has also been so far unable to explain how the leak occurred in the first place.
Oil Sheen Near BP Wells in Gulf of MexicoProbed by U.S. (click title to entry - thank you)
By Brian Swint and Katarzyna Klimasinska - Aug 18, 2011 2:40 PM ET
The U.S. is asking companies to investigate a “light” oil sheen in an area of the Gulf of Mexico where BP has two abandoned exploration wells.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement is determining whether the sheen, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) off the Louisiana coast, may be coming from wells not currently in use, Melissa Schwartz, an agency spokeswoman, said today in an e-mail.
BP and other oil producers were asked to investigate the sheen in the Green Canyon area that was spotted by the U.S. Coast Guard last week, the London-based company said today.
BP doesn’t believe the cloudy water at Green Canyon was caused by oil or natural gas, nor that its wells are contributing to the sheen, the company said in a statement.
BP inspected the two abandoned wellheads and found cloudy water near one of them, which may be caused by naturally occurring shallow water flow that’s kicking up silt, the company said…
The Gulf of Mexico is the single largest offshore oil driling region in the world. It needs its own inspection and Coast Guard force in order to inspect the undersea environment for the purpose of fines and assigning fault!
The Petroleum Industry 'in land' seeking to victimize the entire continental United States uses the same procedures and the same companies for drilling and building their wells. The 'fraking' operations are as equally dangerous and chronically fail to protect the citizen from the explosive procedures of this industry.
When is this going to stop!!!!?
