800 Gulf Oil Response Workers Recalled To Shore
Posted on 13 June 2010 by LynThomas in Health
BP reported that oil clean up work was halted for a day, as nearly 800 Gulf oil response workers, aboard 120 vessels, were recalled to shore, after dozens aboard a supply boat were hospitalized, from exposure to a natural gas leak.
“The crews were taken back to shore as a precaution, after a supply vessel accidentally broke open a gas line, while mooring at a gas platform in Cocodrie, southwest Louisiana,” BP’s Nicole Lachance said.
The move came after 36 people, out of 41, were taken to hospital, with two workers complaining of more serious symptoms, including shortness of breath, disorientation and chest pains.
Officials said a small amount of toxic fumes leaked at a natural gas platform, before it was promptly shut off.
The 120 vessels were a fraction of the 3600 vessels that are now involved in the response effort to clean up the Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to the latest BP figures.
“The safety of the people in the field is a top priority of this oil spill response,” said Unified Command Safety Section Chief Scot Rudolph.
New data suggesta the oil’s flow – before a containment system was put in place last week – was between 25,000 and 30,000 barrels a day and could be upwards of 40,000 barrels a day, or some 1.68 million gallons, in the worst environmental disaster in US history. The latest containment is only capturing around 28,000 barrels a day. This rate is not expected to be boosted to 40- 50,000 barrels a day until July.
BP chief executive, Tony Hayward said that the firm is considering cutting its dividend amid growing US public anger at its handling of the devastating oil spill. The company’s shares continue to slump, as BP faces a multi-million dollar bill for cleanup operations.
“The administration keeps pushing the boundaries on what we are responsible for,” a BP executive said, after Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, said he would demand that the company also pay for the lost wages of oil workers, who were rendered idle by the massive slick.
US Coast Guard, Rear Admiral James Watson, has expressed concern that BP’s current plants to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill do not go far enough and has ordered an immediate improvement.
this is bull i cant beleive that you think that this is naughty it is really cool!
This entire toxic scenario is frightening……
Did You Know?
BP engineers alerted federal regulators at the Minerals Management Service that they were having difficulty controlling the Macondo well (Deepwater Horizon) six weeks before the disaster, according to e- mails released by the Energy and Commerce Committee.
“I don’t think this would have happened on Exxon’s watch,” Tom Bower, author of “The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century,” said in a June 11 Bloomberg Television interview. “They’d be much more careful and much more conscious of the need to supervise subcontractors.”
WELL excuse me your sainted Exxon……. and Chevron and ConocoPhillips.
Let’s just take a look at a few of your past misdemeanours, and then we can consider again – if the moratorium on deepwater drilling should be lifted, and place it all firmly back into your nice clean hands!
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