ROBERT, La. - As BP labored for a second day Thursday to choke off the leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, dire new government estimates showed the disaster has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. After an 18-hour delay to assess its efforts and bring in more materials, BP resumed pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out well 5,000 feet underwater. Officials said it could be late today or the weekend before the company knows if the procedure known as a top kill has cut off the oil that has been flowing for five weeks.
The practice of reusing drilling mud - the cuttings pulled from deep underground during oil and natural gas exploration - is growing across the state. As horizontal shale plays are developed, a majority of drilling rigs are focused on that technology, said Stephen Hooper, business development manager at Terra Renewal LLC.
SALEM - State regulators have halted operations at a gas well site in Harrison County after chemically tainted drilling mud spilled into a stream. The mud spilled into Indian Run last week from Antero Resources Appalachian Corp.'s well pad about 3 miles north of Salem, The Exponent Telegram reported.
MONTROSE, Pa. - Residents and activists met Wednesday with officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other federal agencies to urge the government to step in and keep watch over the rapidly expanding natural gas drilling industry. More than a dozen people met with a contingent of federal officials in a private home in Susquehanna County, near the spot where a pipeline company was forced to halt work this month after repeated spills of nontoxic drilling mud into one of the state's most pristine streams.
As a teenager growing up in Mississippi who barely learned to read or write, Thomas Brown Jr. went to work on oil drilling rigs as a "roughneck" - doing all the hard manual labor to support the drilling team. The work included pouring 50-pound bags of additives into mud used in the drilling process.
As a teenager growing up in Mississippi who barely learned to read or write, Thomas Brown Jr. went to work on oil drilling rigs as a "roughneck" - doing all the hard manual labor to support the drilling team. The work included pouring 50-pound bags of additives into mud used in the drilling process.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Some Love County landowners are concerned about the disposal of drilling mud in their area while industry officials maintain the practice of creating soil farms is safe if done properly. To Ben Gadd, it's the oil and natural gas industry's dirty little secret.
In a retrial of the largest single plaintiff's asbestos award in U.S. history, a second jury came back with a defense verdict and awarded nothing. Last May, Thomas Brown, Jr., who worked his life in the Gulf Coast drilling business as a "roughneck," won $322 million for developing asbestosis he argued was caused by inhaling raw asbestos powder he used to mix with drilling mud as part of his job.
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