In the proud tradition of BP More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one — not industry, not government — is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows. The [...]
Deepwater Horizon
BP finds giant new crude oil field in the Gulf of Mexico
First the good news and that is British Petroleum has found a giant crude oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. It may be one of the biggest oil finds of the year, if not the decade. In recent weeks, executives at BP’s exploration centers in Houston and London have been closely tracking the progress [...]
