Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
In the 100 days since an April 20 explosion about the Deepwater Horizon drill rig unleashed a seemingly unstoppable torrent of oil into the Gulf of Mexico , the eyes of the world have been focused on the disaster.
Hundreds of millions of gallons of crude have been released, and billions of dollars have been allocated toward the clean up fund. The numbers so far: GULF OF MEXICO OIL According to government estimates, between 100 and 200 million gallons of oil have been released into the Gulf due to the Deep Water Horizon accident.Oil recovered: 50 million gallons* The Coast Guard said nearly 33 million gallons of oily water have been recovered and as much as 15 percent of that -- or nearly 5 million gallons -- is oil. * The Coast Guard estimates that nearly 11 million gallons of oil have been burned. * BP says it has recovered about 34.7 million gallons.That's more than 50 million gallons in all pulled out of the gulf -- or roughly a quarter of the 200 million gallons that entered it....The scope of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s oil leak into the Yellowstone River could extend far beyond a 10-mile stretch of the famed waterway, the company acknowledged under ...
The Coast Guard said Friday evening that a "very small part" of a diesel fuel and oil spill from a 73-foot workboat that sank earlier in the day has reached a Seattl...
The cleanup of history's worst peacetime oil spill is generating thousands of tons of oil-soaked debris that is ending up in local landfills, some of which were alre...
The waiting game continued Saturday morning as engineers kept vigil over the massive cap holding back oil from BP's busted Gulf well, their eyes glued to monitors in...
A summary of events Thursday, June 24, Day 65 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon ,...
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) — While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gon...
Inside a sprawling command post in southern Louisiana, The Blob is everywhere.It stains the many maps tacked to white walls. Computer monitors beam satellite images ...
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. -- A leaky truck filled with oil-stained sand and absorbent boom soaked in crude pulls away from the beach, leaving tar balls in a public parking ...
ON BARATARIA BAY, La. --While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone int...
The 5,600 vessels taking part in the oil spill operation on the Gulf of Mexico make up the largest fleet assembled since the Allied invasion of Normandy, according t...
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (AP) — A leaky truck filled with oil-stained sand and absorbent boom soaked in crude pulls away from the beach, leaving tar balls in a public park...
As the end of a critical 48-hour testing window to monitor the success of BP's capped oil well approaches, a company executive now says tests could last beyond the o...
So far, this has been the summer of brown. As in rusty brown oil and the devastated brown pelicans it has cast helpless upon the beach. But it's Louisiana's rich pal...
Natural, biodegradable solution to sop up Gulf oil?
June 17, 2010"Chairman Stupak, Ranking Member Burgess, members of the Subcommittee. I am Tony Hayward, Chief Executive of BP plc.The explosion and fire aboard the De...
Italian officials were clearing hurdles Monday to begin pumping some half a million gallons of fuel from the capsized Costa Concordia that threaten an environmental ...
Italian officials discovered a sixteenth body while searching the wrecked Costa Concordia while operations are under way to remove a half-million gallons of fuel fro...
Crews worked to build a path Sunday over a half-mile of Bering Sea ice for the final leg of a Russian tanker's mission to deliver fuel to a town isolated amid one of...
A Russian tanker and its crew have begun offloading more than a million gallons of fuel to an iced-in city along the western coast of Alaska.Two parallel hoses, 700 ...
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