Second Oil containment system is opened
BP began collecting crude oil Wednesdays from half containment system that hopes the company will help stem the thousands of tons to escape from his damaged in the Gulf of Mexico, an amount that scientists say could be as high as 60,000 barrels per days. The company is transferring the oil through a series of tubes and hoses to a ship, then cleaning and burning of oil and gas in a mixture of equipment. The method is using BP since 3 June, a containment cap is capable of about 15,000 barrels of crude oil per day to collect. But according to new estimates released Tuesday by the flow, it can only about one fourth of the amount leaking daily. Adm. Thad W. Allen of the Coast Guard, the national commander of the spill, said BP was also a new system to the current containment devices, one that will be flexible in the case of replacement of a developing hurricane. This system will also be able to collect more oil if these estimates to increase, with a maximum capacity of 80,000 barrels.
32 million viewers for Obama’s Address
President Obama’s first address from the Oval Office, a 18-minute speech about the oil spill in prime time was performed by 11 networks on Tuesday night, drew 32 million viewers, according to the Nielsen Company. Number of viewers was 33 percent lower than those for Obama’s first State of the Union address in January, and down 21 percent from its last prime-time speech in December, on the war in Afghanistan.
BP Agrees to Set Up $ 20 billion Claims Fund
Under intense pressure from the Obama administration, BP agreed Wednesday to an independent fund to 20 billion U.S. dollars in claims stemming from the worst oil spill in U.S. history to be charged. The company also said it would suspend dividend payments to its shareholders for the rest of the year and would oilfield workers to compensate for lost wages. The compensation fund will be headed by Kenneth R. Feinberg, the mediator who oversaw the compensation fund for victims of the attacks of September 11. President Obama announced the agreement in the Rose Garden on Wednesday afternoon, after he met in the morning with top executives of BP and lawyers for the system to complete. Following comments by the president, the chairman of BP, Carl-Henric Svanberg, and other managers appeared before reporters to “apologize to the American people” for the disaster.
source:NYTimes
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