Posts Tagged ‘work’

July 28 2010

Crews work to cap new La. oil leak near Gulf

Oil spews from a wellhead in Barataria Bay on the coast of Louisiana after it was struck by a tugboat on Tuesday. A crew capable of capping the well is expected onsite later this afternoon. Oil, natural gas and water are still spewing from an abandoned well hit by a barge on a Louisiana waterway near the Gulf of Mexico.






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July 25 2010

BP resumes work on relief well

The Development Driller III, left, is reinstalling pipes in order to then restart the drilling of the main relief well at the BP spill site. It and the Development Driller II are seen here last Thursday, before Tropical Storm Bonnie forced work to stop.Ships were getting back in place Sunday at the Gulf of Mexico site of BP’s leaky oil well as crews raced to resume work on plugging the gusher before another big storm stops work again.


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July 24 2010

90 percent of soon-to-be brides plan wedding at work

Planning a wedding is so time consuming that nearly nine out of 10 women surveyed confessed to using company time to plan the big day. The survey also revealed most women believe they did more wedding planning than their partner.



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July 23 2010

Storm puts Gulf spill work on hold

Support vessels sit at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster off the Louisiana coast on Friday.Ships relaying the sights and sounds from BP’s broken oil well stood fast Friday as the leftovers of Tropical Storm Bonnie blew straight for the spill site.


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July 22 2010

Feds work to put a price tag on oil spill damage

BP consultant Robert Nailon measures how high oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill has soaked marsh grasses in marshes around Bay Ronquille, La., on July 15.  Nailon is part of a joint government-BP team trying to gauge the impact of the oil on the region's fragile saltwater marshes.From poisoned plankton to fouled beaches, a painstaking census of the dead from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is under way.


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July 22 2010

Tropical Storm Bonnie forms, spill work on hold

A Caribbean storm system grew to become Tropical Storm Bonnie Thursday evening, as officials working on the BP spill weighed whether to evacuate all ships and crews at the spill site.

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July 22 2010

Gathering storm halts Gulf relief well work

A newly formed tropical depression racing toward the Gulf increased pressure on BP and the U.S. government to decide whether to evacuate hundreds of crew and dozens of ships at the spill site.

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July 22 2010

Storm builds, halting Gulf relief well work

A newly formed tropical depression racing toward the Gulf increased pressure on BP and the U.S. government to decide whether to evacuate hundreds of crew and dozens of ships at the spill site.

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July 21 2010

BP shuts down well work as storm nears

Rain storms moving toward the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday temporarily shut down undersea efforts to seal BP’s ruptured well, interrupting work just as engineers get close to plugging the leak with mud and cement.

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July 21 2010

Storms threaten to shut down BP well work

With a relief tunnel just days away from reaching the busted well in the Gulf of Mexico, storms threaten to delay BP’s undersea efforts to permanently plug the leak.

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