London, England – The U.S. series to take over BP said Tuesday that the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, that he “certainly there will be changes” in the oil industry. “There is no question we’ll learn a lot from this accident in the Gulf Coast. This is about equipment, people, other companies, and as a result of that we learn a lot, both BP and the industry,” said Robert Dudley told reporters outside the BP headquarters in London when he met with President Carl-Henric Svanberg BP and outgoing Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward.
The oil giant said earlier Tuesday that Hayward will replace Dudley as chief executive officer, by October 1.
“Tony and I are working through a transition between now and the first of October,” Dudley told reporters.
Responding to a reporter’s question, Svanberg said he has no plans to resign.
“I serve at the pleasure of the board, and they have repeatedly and explicitly asked me to stay, and that’s what I do,” he explained.
Dudley is a long time BP employee with more than 30 years in the oil industry. A chemical engineer by training, he was in charge of day-to-day management of the Bay spill clean-up operation in June.
“I already have the last three months, every day, on the Gulf Coast,” he said. “And I’m going to concentrate on next month and half of what we do in the Gulf Coast, our relations in the Gulf Coast and in Washington.”
Some relationships in Washington are very tense. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Florida, who represents the Tampa area, on Tuesday told a House subcommittee assessing the impact of oil pollution on the Gulf Coast tourism that “the efforts of BP to date have been inadequate, to say the least.”
“What’s especially crazy is, we look at those incessant advertisements – full-page ads – BP that their corporate image polishing are in a time where they should be a large proportion of these resources to devote to helping small businesses, our hotels, back on their feet. ”
BP documents submitted to the U.S. Coast Guard this month offer what one lawmaker calls Tuesday a “smoking gun” – showing how much oil spewed from the oil giant and crippled in the Gulf of Mexico.
“This is the smoking gun we’ve been waiting, where BP finally acknowledged in writing the true extent of this leak could be at least 53,000 barrels per day,” said Rep. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts, who heads the The House Energy and Environment Subcommittee
The figure comes from documents Markey received during the investigation of the commission into the disaster.
Although an explanation of the figure Markey touted as “first admission BP … that the leakage may be so great,” BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles estimated the flow from the well to 53,000 barrels per day in a 06/06 interview with CNN.
Suttles called Markey sent letters to the Coast Guard on July 6 and July 11 to tell them to “flow of 53,000 ‘barrels of oil per day to be spilled in determining the amount of dispersants used to clean up.
BP and the Coast Guard initially estimated 1,000 barrels of oil per day were leaking from the well, but this estimate was very imprecise. Scientists later bumped the estimate between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels.
Under current law, BP would have to pay up to $ 4,300 per barrel of oil spilled when the company is found to be guilty of gross negligence, according to the commission’s Markey. BP eventually could pay billions of dollars in fines in addition to the billions already spent on clean up and compensation.
Markey announced his “smoking gun” just a few hours after the Hayward said BP would fall as chief executive of the holding step.
Meanwhile, as the crews work in the Gulf to continue, the oil is increasingly difficult to find from the air.
The federal on-scene coordinator, Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft, went looking for the two flights over the weekend, finding only a large patch about 12 miles from Grand Isle, Louisiana.
No oil can be seen in Louisiana Lake Borgne, Lake Pontchartrain or Chand Leur Sound, while only a slight sheen was visible in other parts of the Gulf.
Zukunft said surface oil was aborted “fast” and of course now that the flow of crude oil has been cut off below the surface.
More than 790 ships have been pressed into service skimming oil to the surface target. At the height of the spill, they were the collection of 25,000 barrels of oil per day, but one day last week, they managed to get only 56 barrels.
BP crews managed to temporarily plug the well-submarine in the heart of the 3-month-old disaster on July 15.
Oil had gushed from the ruptured account for nearly three months after the rig Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20 left 11 workers dead. Officials have said a relief and is the only lasting solution to the disaster.
Crews have resumed efforts to seal properly, the activity was suspended after put into the weekend due to bad weather.
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the U.S. official monitoring efforts, now says he expects the first step to begin early next week. The process, called a static dead, “will pay mud and cement into the well from above.
That would be followed by a second attempt to plug the well, the conclusion is final in the soil by means of a relief well, which could start with 8.7 to 9.
Allen outlined the timetable rigs drilling wells and other relief ships back to the scene amid calmer waters. They had last week ahead Tropical Storm Bonnie. The evacuation delayed efforts to seal accounted for approximately one week.
Everything indicates that the property is structurally sound after 11 days on the new CAP containment valves were closed, stopping oil from flowing into the Bay after three months of incessant stream.
The latest measurements showed that the company is well, and there does not seem to be any leaks – conditions that are essential before it can be cut off from the top and bottom using the two methods.
source:CNN
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