Oil spills: the oil sector arming
Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips have announced the establishment of an emergency fund of one billion dollars for the construction of a rapid response system in case of oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico. Each group will invest up to 25% in the fund, which does not BP. According to their press release, the combined oil and want to be able to intervene by 3000 meters deep, containing leaks up to 100,000 barrels per day.
In Washington, the House of Representatives passed two bills. One aimed at improving safety on oil drilling sites and the other on prevention technologies and management of oil spills.
BP, which aims to give ten billion dollars of assets to fund the cost of the flight on its platform in the Gulf of Mexico, awakens the interest of India bad credit payday loans.Indian Minister of Petroleum, Murli Deora, said studying the possibility of taking stakes in a gas field of British oil in Vietnam. But for now, BP is focusing on meteorological considerations, a depression in the Caribbean, threatening to become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico by 48 hours. BP therefore plans to suspend his final attempt containment of the leaking oil. The sealing work, in progress, would be deferred for two weeks already after three months of unsuccessful attempts.
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