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Oil sheen is seen near vessels assisting in the capping of the Deepwater Horizon oil wellhead are seen on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana Sunday, July 18, 2010.
(photo: AP / Patrick Semansky)
BP oil well no longer 'threat' to Gulf
The Daily Telegraph Australia
| THE Macondo well, which spilled an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, has been secured and no longer constitutes "a threat", a senior US official says. | "I'm very pleased to announce that with the new blowout preventer on this well, the cement that was pr...
A worker power washes an air boat at the decontamination unit at the Deepwater Horizon Response Plaquemines Branch Sept. 2, 2010.
(photo: US Coast Guard / PO3 Charly Hengen)
BP spill costs hit $ 8bn as crews unearth clues
The Times Of India
WASHINGTON: British oil giant BP has spent $ 8 billion to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed. | Robotic submarines recorded the delicate operation as engineers raised a failed blowout preventer from the ruptured well and b...
Google and Galaxy Zoo could aid global climate project
The Guardian
| Climate scientists meeting in Britain this week hope to build a database to predict natural disasters precisely. And records of the voyages of the Bounty and Beagle will assist them in their task Victims of Pakistan's floods use a railway track to ...
Miliband accuses coalition of 'greenwash' over North Sea oil
The Independent
| David Cameron's claim to lead the "greenest government ever" was thrown into the heart of the Labour leadership contest last night, amid concern about plans for a deep-sea drilling operation in the North Sea. | David Miliband, one of the candidates...
NEERI team to study tar ball phenomenon
The Hindu
| Special Correspondent | Scientists to visit Goa next week | Union Environment Ministry asks NEERI to conduct study | Goa had sought the Ministry's help to solve tar ball issue | Panaji: A team of scientists from Nagpur-based National Environmental ...
Google and Galaxy Zoo could aid global climate project
The Observer
| Leading climate scientists will gather in the UK this week to finalise plans for a revolutionary project aimed at transforming their ability to predict meteorological disasters. The goal is to create an international databank that would generate fo...
Poland. BP - Oil - petrol. May 19, 2010
WN / marzena
BP removes cap from plugged oil well
The Australian
| BP overnight removed a massive cap which had stemmed the flow of oil from its ruptured well deep in the Gulf of Mexico in a key step toward killing the well once and for all, off...
In this Wednesday, April 21, 2010 aerial file photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning.
AP / Gerald Herbert
Oil rig blast forces 13 workers into Gulf of Mexico
Inquirer
| NEW ORLEANS—An explosion ripped through an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday forcing 13 people into the water, one of whom was injured, the US Coast Guard said. | There w...
Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. All 13 crew members were rescued.
AP / Gerald Herbert
Oil sheen spreading after rig blast, fire
The Daily Telegraph Australia
| A 2KM-LONG oil sheen spread overnight from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico off Lousiana, west of the site of BP's massive spill. | Coast Guard P...
BP spends $8b to battle Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Gulf News
| Washington: British oil giant BP has spent $8 billion to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed. | Robotic submarines recorded the delicate operation as engineers raised a fa...
BP oil well secure with blowout preventer installed
Nashville Tennessean
individual: 2 numChar :2397 | -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 3 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 2397 | TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 2397 | LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 0 | -->--> | NEW ORLEANS -- With a new blowout preventer in place and a 5,000-foot column of cement ...
Key oil spill evidence raised to Gulf's surface
Breitbart
| In this image taken from video provided by BP PLC at 12:23 a.m. EDT, Satur... | ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) - Engineers have hoisted a key piece of evidence in the BP oil spill to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and investigators will soon get th...
Oil Discoveries
A worker power washes an air boat at the decontamination unit at the Deepwater Horizon Response Plaquemines Branch Sept. 2, 2010.
(photo: US Coast Guard / PO3 Charly Hengen)
BP spill costs hit $ 8bn as crews unearth clues
The Times Of India
WASHINGTON: British oil giant BP has spent $ 8 billion to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed. | Robotic submarines recorded the delicate operation as engineers raised a failed blowout preventer from the ruptured well and began lifting it to the surface in order to hand it...
Oil Trading
An Iraqi special weapons and tactics team, alongside U.S. Special Forces soldiers, conduct an operation in a village in Diyala province, Iraq
(photo: US Navy / Petty Officer 2nd Class Miguel Angel Contreras)
The legacy of seven years in Iraq
Irish Times
| Has anything good come out of the occupation of Iraq? In the week that President Obama formally declared an end to the US combat mission there, commentators are starting to count the final cost of George Bush's nation-building project, writes LARA MARLOW , Washington Corresponent | THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION gave four justifications for its invasion...



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