BP PLC plans to interest the oil leaking from the recovering well in the Gulf of Mexico after collection was halted yesterday. BP has the ability to recover between 26,000 and 28,000 barrels of oil barrels per day, Robert Wine, a company spokesman, said today. The company recovered 21,040 barrels yesterday after the Discoverer Enterprise drillship stopped capturing oil for 10 hours due to an equipment problem and thunderstorms.
The temporary cessation of recovery came as BP CEO Tony Hayward was photographed on a British yacht race. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel Hayward criticism, saying today on ABC’s “This Week” that was “part of a long line of PR gaffes and errors.”
About 11,050 barrels of oil were collected from the drill ship and 9990 barrels and 43.4 million cubic feet of natural gas were burned aboard vessel half, according to a statement posted today on the website of London-based BP.
If it can to 28,000 barrels of oil a day to recover, BP would prevent between 46 and 80 percent of Gulf oil policy, based on estimates of a leak the government-led panel of 35,000 to 60,000 barrels barrels per day .
Hayward Travel
The CEO of the company back to the UK this week to see his family, said Wine. Hayward was “still very much in charge of BP, said Wine. Carl-Henric Svanberg President BP said on Sky TV, which on June 18 Hayward was handing over control of the spill to BP’s Managing Director Robert Dudley.
Hayward will remain in Europe next week to meet with staff, investors and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the Financial Times reported today on its website, without giving sources. Toby Odone, a company spokesman in Houston, had no immediate response to schedules Hayward.
The company will be the amount they spent on the oil spill response update tomorrow at 7 hours London time, Odone said. He declined to comment on the Financial Times that BP will report spending has reached $ 2 billion. BP said on June 14 was 1.6 billion U.S. dollars spent so far.
The company said on Twitter today that the $ 109,000,000 spent on progress to date of 20 billion U.S. dollars has been pledged to put aside. The company has also pledged 350 million U.S. dollars to pay for sand to add to barrier islands to protect them against oil and 100 million U.S. dollars to a fund for oil rig workers affected by the spill.
“Worst-case scenario ‘
Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said today a BP internal document shows the property up to 100,000 barrels per day leak under a worst-case scenario. ” This scenario would include a damaged drilling and removing the puncture preventer and wellhead, according to an e-mailed statement from Markey’s office.
BP is the recovery of at least 15,000 barrels per day since June 8, except June 15 when catching was halted due to a fire that may have been caused by lightning.
The ships are now operating at full capacity and BP will each drop “of oil to get,” said Wine.
BP said that a total of 249.500 barrels recovered from the pit, which began leaking after a 20-4 explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig.
Wine declined to comment on a Wall Street Journal today that BP has not decided whether Anadarko Petroleum Corp., a minority partner in Macondo and Sue. BP said June 18 that both parties are responsible for the spill, while Anadarko good operator BP said the claims related to the injury, because “reckless charge.”
source:bloomberg
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