Maybe Transocean’s safety bonuses are not big enough
One-quarter of Transocean’s cash bonus program is dedicated to the company’s safety record. Does that really send a strong signal to workers that the bosses value it? More »
Government weighs new standards for blowout preventers
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said that changes to devices like the one that failed to stop the Macondo well blowout could include mandates for more instrumentation and a second set of blind shear rams capable of cutting through drill pipes and sealing well holes. More »
West Virginia marks anniversary of coal mine blast that killed 29
Massey Energy Co, which owns the Upper Big Branch Mine where the men died, shut down production at its other Appalachian sites Tuesday as politicians, miners and family members turned out to commemorate the nation’s worst coalfield disaster since 1970. More »
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Study: New hydropower could add 12 gigawatts — without any new dams
Renewable energy advocates are trying to dispel the belief that hydropower has already reached its potential and the U.S. has maxed out on the amount of electricity it can harness from moving water. A new Energy Department study today concludes that the U.S. could add 12.6 gigawatts of hydropower generation without building any new dams — and just by adding turbines and other equipment to those facilities. More »
Should BP be allowed to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico?
The biggest leaseholder in the Gulf wants permits to restart drilling. Loren Steffy asks whether the oil giant should get a second chance just weeks before the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. More »
Tanker due to load Libyan rebel oil
The shipment of oil for export, the first in almost three weeks amid escalating violence, would be a tiny fraction of Libya’s pre-crisis exports of around 1.6 million barrels a day, but is viewed by analysts as a symbolic step forward. More »
Japan sets new radiation safety level for seafood
The plant operator insisted that the radiation will rapidly disperse and that it poses no immediate danger, but an expert said exposure to the highly concentrated levels near the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant could cause immediate injury and that the leaks could result in residual contamination of the sea in the area. More »
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Tesoro spin off may see $302 million IPO
Tesoro Logistics will offer 12.5 million units. Its nitial assets will include a crude-oil gathering system in the Bakken Shale-Williston Basin area of North Dakota and Montana, eight refined-products terminals in the Midwest and West, a crude oil and refined products storage facility and five related short-haul pipelines in Salt Lake City. More »
BP emails indicate strain before Gulf oil spill
BP supervisors in Houston exchanged sometimes contentious emails about operations on the company’s Macondo well in the month prior to the deadly April 2010 blowout and oil spill. The The emails appear to show strain among managers overseeing the drilling operation, as well as the stress on workers trying to complete the over-budget well and shut it in for production later. More »
Investigator defends tests of blowout preventer
An investigator who examined the safety device that failed to prevent last year’s BP oil spill said his company did not skip critical tests under pressure to meet a deadline to file a report on what caused the blowout preventer not to work. More »
U.S., Mexico begin to bolster drilling standards
In the post-Macondo era, regulators discuss how to share best practices in the Gulf of Mexico and “move forward in development of a single protocol between our two nations,” Interior Secretary says. Separately, Transocean apologizes for insensitivity in claiming best safety performance in 2010, the same year of the Macondo blowout and Gulf oil spill.
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April 26, 2013
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