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BP plagued by storm delay, claims concerns, Lockerbie query

Reuters

BP moved ships and workers back to a Gulf of Mexico oil spill as a storm diminished on Saturday, but work to permanently seal the blown-out well could be delayed at least a week.

Ships and rigs working to drill a relief well intended to halt the leak for good were expected back in place on Sunday, but reconnecting the piping to the well could delay the operation seven to nine days, officials said.

Retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, head of the U.S. spill response, said the launch of a "static kill" operation to plug the … Read more

Should BP nuke its leaking oil well?

Reuters

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON--His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former longtime Russian minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP's oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

"A nuclear explosion over the leak," he says, nonchalantly puffing a cigarette as he sits in a conference room at the Institute of Strategic Stability, where he is a director. "I don't know what BP is waiting for, they are wasting their time. Only about 10 kilotons of nuclear explosion capacity and … Read more

BP oil spill: There's even an app for that

In Duck vs BP for iPhone, it's your job to save the world's last surviving duck by plugging oil-spewing pipes.

If only life could imitate app. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could fix this catastrophe and rescue wildlife with a few screen taps?

I suppose it was only a matter of time before an app directly referenced the BP oil spill. This one's a game, and a decidedly simplistic one at that, but it is filled with interesting and educational facts about the environment.

Using your iPhone or iPod accelerometer, you "steer" your … Read more