MSM: Oil discovery in Falklands hailed as biggest of its kind since North Sea oil

(DailyMail) – An oil field discovery in the Falklands was hailed yesterday as potentially the biggest discovery of its kind since North Sea Oil.

Shares in Rockhopper exploration soared 52 per cent yesterday as the company said it expected to pump out at least 242 million barrels of oil from the ‘Sea Lion’ well  – the expedition’s first major oil find.

And some predicted there could be millions more barrels of oil lying untapped in the area – sparking hopes that the region could hold as much oil as the North Sea. Read More Here

10 Things You Need (But Don’t Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill

See Also: (ATS) – *UPDATE* BP has NEVER shown us the main leak! Until now… – View More Here

Also: (KurtNimmo) – Obama’s Fairy Tale: Feds in Charge of Oil Disaster Response – Read More Here

(AlterNet) – It’s been 37 days since BP’s offshore oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, crude oil has been hemorrhaging into ocean waters and wreaking unknown havoc on our ecosystem — unknown because there is no accurate estimate of how many barrels of oil are contaminating the Gulf.

Though BP officially admits to only a few thousand barrels spilled each day, expert estimates peg the damage at 60,000 barrels or over 2.5 million gallons daily. (Perhaps we’d know more if BP hadn’t barred independent engineers from inspecting the breach.) Measures to quell the gusher have proved lackluster at best, and unlike the country’s last big oil spill — Exxon-Valdez in 1989 — the oil is coming from the ground, not a tanker, so we have no idea how much more oil could continue to pollute the Gulf’s waters.

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Video: Wayne Madsen Reports BP Orders Press Away from Gulf via Janet Napolitano on Alex Jones Tv

Alex talks with investigative journalist Wayne Madsen about Obama administration corruption and the BP Gulf oil scandal. Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3

(Truthout) – How Bush’s DOJ Killed a Criminal Probe Into BP That Threatened to Net Top Officials

Mention the name of the corporation BP to Scott West and two words immediately come to mind: Beyond Prosecution. Read More Here

(Null&Void) – Toxins Developed By Exxon Used To Extenuate Effects of Gulf Oil Spill

As of May 10th, over 250,000 gallons of COREXIT 9500A, a chemical known as a ‘dispersant,’ – designed to break down substances like oil into smaller, less visible particles – has been dumped into the ocean at the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

According to a fact sheet released by the Food & Water Watch group, while dispersants like COREXIT 9500A may break down surface oil particles easing the eye and minimizing contact with oil for a select few animals, they actually encourage oil exposure deeper in the water column to various marine life, including fish, oysters, and eggs – many organisms sold as food commodity around the world. Read More Here

(CBS) – Video: Oil Strikes Louisiana, Residents Outraged – View Video Here

(NASA) – Video: Gulf oil slick satellite image timeline – View Video Here

(FireDogLake) – Putting A Lid on the Truth: Underwater Oil Plumes. The Oil Spill is far worse than the Surface Slick would suggest – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Gulf Oil Disaster: A Transatlantic Pollution Catastrophe Looms – Finian Cunningham – Read More Here

(WashingtonsBlog) – Just Like 9/11? Oil Spill Responders Are Getting Sick … But Are Being Told They Don’t Need Any Safety Gear – Read More Here

(INNWR) – Gulf oil spill leak now pegged at 95,000 barrels a day – Read More Here

(Chron) – Florida State scientist: NOAA ignores spill findings – Read More Here

(TheLedger) – As Oil Begins Clogging Marshes, BP Admits Leak Bigger Than It Said

“This is the heavy oil that everyone’s been fearing that is here now,” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says. Read More Here

(WRH) – Gulf Oil Image – View Here

(HuffingtonPost) – Gulf Oil Spill: Government Remains Blind To Underwater Oil Hazard – Read More Here

(SOTT) – Nightmare scene as oil smothers Louisiana wetlands – Read More Here

(WDSU) – Video: Fishermen sick from clean-up work in gulf

Gary Burris, a fisherman in coastal Louisiana, has become severely ill from inhaling fumes during response work following the Deepwater Horizon disaster and claims many more have become sick but hesitate to come forward for fear of losing their only remaining source of revenue.

Video: Oil Spill Leaking 70,000 Barrels A Day Not 5,000!

(CNN) – Anderson Cooper with Purdue University professor Steve Wereley – May 13 –

BP Oil Spill

(WSWS) – The Gulf oil spill: An American Chernobyl

With each passing day, the scale of the disaster unleashed by the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico increases. Somewhere between 5,000 (the official estimate) and 25,000 (the estimate of some scientists) barrels of oil is surging into the Gulf every day. Before it is over, millions, if not tens of millions of gallons of oil will be washed up on America’s wetlands and shorelines. Read More Here

(AP) – Another week at least of unabated Gulf oil geyser

Another week of oil pouring from the seafloor. That is the best-case scenario for the Gulf Coast, where dead sea turtles washed ashore and a massive rust-colored slick continued to swell from an uncontrolled gusher spewing into the water. Read More Here

(WSWS) – BP oil spill threatens environmental catastrophe on US Gulf Coast

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is turning into one of the worst environmental disasters in US history, likely devastating local economies throughout the region and potentially the East Coast of the United States. Efforts to contain the spill have so far been ineffective, hindered by poor weather, while capping the leak at its source could take months. Read More Here

(MSNBC) – Video: Heck-of-a-Job-Brownie Plays HARDBALL –

Oil Spill: Here’s the Inside Scoop

(WashingtonsBlog) – The Gulf oil spill is much worse than originally believed.

As the Christian Science Monitor writes:

It’s now likely that the actual amount of the oil spill dwarfs the Coast Guard’s figure of 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, a day.

Independent scientists estimate that the renegade wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf could be spewing up to 25,000 barrels a day. If chokeholds on the riser pipe break down further, up to 50,000 barrels a day could be released, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration memo obtained by the Mobile, Ala., Press-Register.

MSM: Oil spill disaster is now ‘out of control’

(LondonTimes) – President Barack Obama will today visit the Gulf of Mexico coastline threatened by the giant oil spill, as experts warn that the spill from a ruptured oil rig might be growing five times faster than previously estimated.

The oil is gushing from BP’s sunker Deepwater Horizon rig at 25,000 barrels a day and could reach 50,000 barrels a day according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Earlier estimates had put the leak at 5,000 barrels a day.

Professor Ian MacDonald, an ocean specialist at Florida State University, said the new estimate suggested the leak had already spread 9m gallons of heavy crude oil across the Gulf. This compares with 11m that leaked from the Exxon Valdez tanker when it hit a reef off Alaska in 1989.

Miami University researcher Hans Gruber said satellite images of the slick on Friday showed it was three time bigger than estimated, covering an area of 3,500 square miles (9,000 square kilometers), similar in size to Puerto Rico. Full article here

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(LATimes) – Video: BP’s containment problem is unprecedented

The company must stop a relentless gush of oil nearly a mile below the surface, in a situation that hasn’t been dealt with before. – Video Link Here

(ABCNews) – BP Fought Safety Measures at Deepwater Oil Rigs

BP, the company that owned the Louisiana oil rig that exploded last week, spent years battling federal regulators over how many layers of safeguards would be needed to prevent a deepwater well from this type of accident. Read More Here

(LATimes) – Gulf oil spill: The Halliburton connection

Investigators delving into the possible cause of the massive gulf oil spill are focusing on the role of Houston-based Halliburton Co., the giant energy services company, which was responsible for cementing the drill into place below the water. The company acknowledged Friday that it had completed the final cementing of the oil well and pipe just 20 hours before the blowout last week. Read More Here

(TampaBay) – Oil hits Louisiana coast, could reach Florida by Sunday

An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control with a faint sheen washing ashore along the Gulf Coast on Thursday night as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes. Read More Here

(Bloomberg) – Oil Spill’s ‘Fisheries Failure’ May Signal End of Coastal Towns – Read More Here

MSM: Venezuela, China Sign Oil Deals

(WSJ) – Venezuela and China gave a new boost to their thriving economic ties Tuesday, signing a package of agreements that advances China strategy of locking in access to the South American country’s vast oil reserves.

MSM: US Lawmakers Vote to Punish Iran’s Fuel Suppliers

(Reuters) – As Washington and Tehran began talks over Iran’s nuclear program, U.S. lawmakers approved legislation to bar foreign companies exporting gasoline to Iran from also delivering crude oil to America’s emergency petroleum stockpile.

Senate passes bill to drain Iran gas pumps

(PressTV) – In an attempt to force Tehran to halt its enrichment program, the US Senate has voted to put pressure on companies selling gasoline to Iran.

Venezuela Prepares for U.S. Economic Collapse

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said here Thursday that he has reached an agreement with Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao on a plan to boost Venezuela’s oil shipments to China to 1 million barrels per day next year.

Let the Numbers Speak

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3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation(4/10/2008)

25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate

Reston, VA – North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.

A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency’s 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil.