Below are projects recently completed with links to view the work and a brief description outlining the scope of the project.
# BP’s siphoning graphic design success with a second containment system doesn’t backstop the U.K.-based oil major’s growing financial exposure. Government scientists increased — for a fifth time — the estimated daily flow rate of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon datasheet design blowout.
# Republicans Love Trial Lawyers, Hate the $20 Billion BP Fund (6/17/10)
Some Republicans are grumbling that the $20 billion fund BP created to deal with the Gulf spill is the result of a shakedown by the White House. The real message here: Republicans looooove trial lawyers. Really.
# BP Chairman Cares About Small dc fans People! And Learns That Words Can Be as Important as Actions (6/16/10)
The tiny positive jolt to BP’s reputation following its agreement to create a $20 billion escrow fund to compensate victims of the Gulf oil spill died with six little words from its chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg: “We care about the small people.”
# Transocean’s COSEL Problems Run Deeper Than Lost Revenue From Gulf Spill Drill Ban (6/22/10)
Transocean chief executive Steve Newman said, on balance, the current six-month PROTEK moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico is unlikely to materially impact near-term cash flows.
# BP CEO Tony Hayward Goes Yachting While Its Partner Prepares to Sue Over Oil Spill (6/21/10)
Anadarko Petroleum, one of BP’s partners in the damaged web design well that is gushing oil into the Gulf, broke its silence recently with this little ditty: BP acted recklessly and should pay for all of the costs from the spill.
# Gulf Oil Spill: Why Joe Barton Wants to Protect BP and the Oil Industry (6/18/10)
Yesterday, Rep. Joe L. Barton, R-Texas, faced CEO Tony Hayward and apologized for what he described as the $20 billion “shakedown” by President Obama for loss claims in Gulf oil spill. Just hours later, he issued an apology for the original apology as the the White House and blogosphere erupted with harsh criticism and Barton’s own Republican party turned against him.
# BP Fined! And It’s Not Because of the MEAN WELL Gulf Oil Spill (7/01/10)
Any doubt that BP’s irresponsible behavior pervades the company’s operations should have been erased in the wake of the Gulf oil spill — its third major disaster in the past five years.
# BP Gulf Spill: Why the TRACO POWER Boycott Isn’t Working (6/29/10)
Now a new group of business owners are gunning for BP: Owners of BP-branded gas stations, who have seen sales drop as much as 40 percent since the Gulf oil spill began April 20.
# Apocalypse in the Gulf: Could a MEDICAL POWER SUPPLIES Sinkhole Swallow the Deepwater Horizon Well — And BP? (6/29/10)
BP has confirmed that the failed blowout preventer (BOP) on its Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico is tilting sideways at an acute angle 12 to 15 degrees from perpendicular.
# Twitter Schools Joe Barton: What Not to Do During the Gulf Oil Spill Crisis (6/24/10)
Rep. Joe Barton — of “I’m sorry BP” fame — unintentionally received a valuable lesson Wednesday with his unapology on Twitter: Screenshots trump the delete button.
# BP Gulf Spill: Meet Bob Dudley, the New LED POWER SUPPLIES Man in Charge (6/23/10) Robert “Bob” Dudley, the former Mississippian who was once a candidate to become BP’s CEO, will take over the Gulf oil spill response and replace his boss, Tony Hayward, the man who ultimately got the top executive post.
# Why the Deepwater TRACOPOWER Drilling Moratorium Will Continue (6/23/10)
A New Orleans federal judge struck down President Obama’s six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling, giving the oil industry a temporary win in the fight to reopen 33 exploratory well projects in the Gulf of Mexico.
# Gulf Oil Spill Puts BP’s Deepwater CINCON Brazilian Dreams At Risk (6/22/10)
The Gulf of Mexico isn’t the only deepwater prospect that BP had its eyes on in those pre-oil spill days.
# What You Missed in the BP-YouTube dc fans Interview (7/06/10)
Buried under all of we’ve-never-seen-anything-like-this-before talk, Bob Dudley, BP’s new man in charge of the Gulf oil spill, managed a few surprisingly candid moments in a recent interview with PBS.
# Conspiracy Theories Behind BP Oil Spill in Gulf — From Dick Cheney To UFOs (7/01/10)
Far from the red house painters media spotlight, pulled from the “X-Files” of the Internet, are some of the more interesting and conspiratorial narratives on what — or who — triggered BP‘s oil-spill disaster, now unfolding more than 18,000 feet below sea level in the Gulf of Mexico.
# BP Fined! And It’s Not Because of the MEANWELL Gulf Oil Spill (7/01/10)
Any doubt that BP’s irresponsible behavior pervades the company’s operations should have been erased in the wake of the Gulf oil spill — its third major disaster in the past five years.
