Macondo

BP Well Oil Collection Effort Hits a Snag

BP plc has removed the cap that was collecting some of the oil gushing from its busted Macondo well a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said Wednesday.

June 24, 2010

Report: BP CEO to Step Away from GOM

Some U.S. lawmakers would likely say BP plc CEO Tony Hayward bet the company with the disastrous Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM). Hayward might do well to click on UK-based betting website paddypower.com, which Friday was offering five-to-four odds that he would be the first to leave/lose his job at BP.

June 21, 2010

BP: More Than 11,000 Bbl Collected Sunday

The apparatus collecting oil and natural gas spewing from BP plc’s blown Macondo well a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) prevented 11,100 bbl of oil from flowing into the GOM on Sunday, according to press reports.

June 8, 2010
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