Drilling Down: Tainter and Patzek Tell the Energy-Complexity Story
Joseph Tainter and Tadeusz Patzek are authors of a soon-to-be-released book called Drilling Down: The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma. This book is part of Charles Hall's Briefs in Energy series with the publisher Springer. An earlier book in t...
Transocean’s quiet risk panel & push for immunity
Could it be that, in the outrage over the safety bonuses awarded to top executives at Transocean (RIG), two other striking parts of the company’s proxy go largely overlooked? Transocean, of course, is the offshore drilling contractor that owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that burst into flame a year ago, killing 11 and triggering...
BP Sells Stake in Pan American Energy
Filed under: Deals, BP p.l.c. ADS (BP)In a move intended to help it cover costs related to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP (BP) has agreed to sell its 60% stake in Pan American Energy in South America. BP will collect more than $7 billion over ...
BP and Halliburton Face New Charges: Case Rests on Cement
Filed under: Management, Law, Halliburton (HAL), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), OilThe Financial Times reported on a U.S. investigation that claims that BP (BP) and Halliburton (HAL) knew that the cement used to seal the failed well was unstable.
The lawyers suin...
BP’s Deepwater Oil Spill – Oil Spill Cementing – Open Thread
We have not had an open thread on the oil spill in a while. The oil spill commission released a letter with an attached 38 page analysis this week indicating problems with Halliburton's cementing.
This is a link to the letter from Mr. Bartlit to the Oi...
US Ends Deep-Water Drilling Ban
The Obama administration announced today that it is ending the deep-water drilling ban that it enacted after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. According to the Wall Street Journal,
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, in a statement, said drilling in waters ...
BP’s Deepwater Oil Spill – Still Important things to discuss – Open Thread 4
Since folks still want to discuss the oil spill related issues, this is another open thread. Note that there are a few oil spill related articles in Drumbeat.
BP’s Deepwater Oil Spill – Still Important things to discuss – Open Thread 3
This thread is being closed. Please comment on http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7032.
Since folks still want to discuss the oil spill related issues, this is another open thread. Note that there are a few oil spill related articles in Drumbeat.
BP’s Deepwater Oil Spill – Still Important things to discuss – Open Thread 2
This thread is being closed. Please comment on http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7012.
Since folks still want to discuss the oil spill related issues, this is another open thread. Note that there are a few oil spill related articles in Drumbeat.
BP’s Deepwater Oil Spill – Still Important things to discuss – Open Thread
This thread is being closed. Please comment on http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6997.
It was pointed out to me that our "final" open thread on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill is now up to 488 comments, and there are still folks interested in discussing i...
BP’s Deepwater Horizon – Closing the Well and the Series – and Open Thread
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The operations to seal the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf have now succeeded in putting cement plugs into the well that have effectively ensured that it will remain...
