Into this mix is a new development on the eastern end of Virgin Gorda: Oil Nut Bay.
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If a stable column of mud has been set up in the well, keeping the oil at bay through its sheer weight, the next step would be to set cement in the well and seal it off permanently.
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We're talking about the loss here, by the way, of 400, 000 barrels of oil every day while the flow is shut down in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field.
Houston finds oil, Green Bay packs meat and Waterbury is famed for producing corruption.
Last month, the MS Nordkapp cruise ship hit rocks near Deception Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, spilling diesel oil into the bay.
In addition, the firm had to close part of its Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska earlier this year, after leaks were discovered in one of its pipes.
His final years were marred by a succession of devastating accidents an explosion at BP's Texas City refinery in 2005 that killed 15 workers and injured 170 others, and an oil spill a year later that dumped 4, 800 barrels of oil at Prudhoe Bay, on the coast of Alaska.
Browne was no doubt referring to last year's temporary closure of some operations at the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, delays to the opening of BP's Thunder Horse platform in the Gulf of Mexico, and problems stemming from the 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery that killed 15 BP employees.
For example, back in March, when there was the biggest oil spill in Prudhoe Bay history.
Had the oil crept into the bay, the results would have been devastating.
The gas comes up with the oil pump from Prudhoe Bay, but it's been re-injected back into the ground for decades.
Between 2006 and 2010 it sold licences to firms including ExxonMobil, Chevron and Cairn Energy, which recently found traces of oil in western Disko Bay.
ConocoPhillips China, the subsidiary of the Houston based oil major (COP), said there was yet another leak at one of its oil wells in Bohai Bay, Shanghai Daily reported the company as saying Saturday.
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And, look, I think if you look at the progress of our response to the disaster -- go back a few weeks, and I forget the exact timeline, but oil gets into a bay that is shared by both Alabama and Florida, right?
Last week's oil spill in San Francisco Bay is taking a big toll on wildlife.
And the Bush administration's decision on January 9th to lift a moratorium on oil drilling in nearby Bristol Bay, where Shell hopes to develop natural gas resources, could further increase Aleutian traffic.
Another U.S. gas hoard ripe for export is on the North Slope of Alaska, where for decades operators led by BP have been reinjecting associated gas recovered from Prudhoe Bay and other oil fields back into the ground.
The company said it could prove to yield more oil than Alaska's Prudhoe Bay.
Bangladesh has taken India to court over an oil-rich area in the Bay of Bengal.
The area is along the northern reaches of Barataria Bay, which was heavily affected by oil from the BP spill in 2010.
The left-wing group wants the government to scrap a deal with the US oil giant ConocoPhillips to explore for gas in the Bay of Bengal.
Petro Kareem will produce oil and gas from a lease within the North Zeit Bay concession, located onshore in the Gulf of Suez.
Dana Petroleum Egypt has reported several significant exploration successes at North Zeit Bay during 2011, including encountering good quality oil-bearing sands and establishing two gas condensate field discoveries.
EU. Among the arguments invoked for Turkey's membership are the promotion of human rights, bridling its generals, fostering European commercial interests in Central Asia, keeping fundamentalists in the region at bay, the security of Europe and the safety of oil supplies.
Scores of oil-covered seabirds have died since an Asian freighter collided with the bay bridge and dumped 58, 000 gallons of thick bunker fuel.
The question for us and the challenge for us is get quicker and agile where smaller units can get to back-bay shallow areas, and work offshore to find smaller patches of oil and deal with them as quickly as we can moving forward.
Boone Pickens points out, that's the size of the largest oil field the U.S. has ever had--Alaska's Prudhoe Bay.
Pemex produces about 3.2 million barrels of crude oil a day, of which 2.7 million barrels a day comes from the Bay of Campeche in the southern Gulf.
To the casual observer, the recovery of West Angle Bay seems complete, especially to those who recall the thick brown deposits of oil that coated the beach after the spill.
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The brief criticizes BP for, among many other things, downplaying the plight of sick dolphins in Barataria Bay, La, of dead and dying deep-sea corals and of coastal marshes still matted with oil.
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