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BP Says It Still Might Drill in Spill Reservoir

As Gulf Plug Firms Up, BP Shakes Up Spill Team

BP To Begin Forcing Cement Down Well in Next Day

As BP Plugs Well, Other Spill Cos. See A Rebound

Thousands Sign on for $10B BP Chemical Leak Lawsuit

Editorial: Big Oil's Politics Rule Senate on Energy

To Seal or Sell? BP Has Options on Remaining Oil

Photo courtesy of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.

Editorial

Engineering’s Shame
Five years after the flooding of New Orleans, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is prompting questions about the failure of engineers to foresee risks or invent a quick fix.

Photo: AP/Wideworld

Blog Posts

Oil Spill Update
ENR editors are closely covering the oil spill and filing daily dispatches.

BP, Berms, and Infrastructure Realities
Angelle Bergeron, a freelance writer in New Orleans, comes to the defense of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Photo: U.S. Coast Guard

Video

New Orleans Surge Protection Grows
Even without gates in place, "big daddy of them all" storm surge wall stands ready to help block rising seas.

BP Works to Kill Leak
BP's attempt to choke off the gusher at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico appeared to be making some progress, officials said Thursday. New government estimates showed the disaster has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez as the biggest oil spill in U.S.

Photo: BP

Maps/Images

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More News

06/24/10 Bill Introduced To Allow Foreign Ships In Gulf Cleanup
06/16/10 Dredge Armada Converging on Louisiana
06/09/10 A State Built on Oil Sees Gusher It Doesn’t Like
06/07/10 A Weekend of Hope: How the Cap on the BP Well Works
06/03/10 Shaw Awarded Barrier Island Work Funded by BP
06/03/10 BP Funds Controversial $360 Mil Barrier Islands Plan
06/02/10 The Gulf Oil Spill Disaster Is Engineering’s Shame
06/02/10 Texas Coast Clear Today, But Long-Term Outlook Cloudy
05/28/10 2010 Hurricane Season Will Be "Active to Extremely Active," Scientists Predict
05/28/10 Louisiana Gets Emergency Permits for Berms
05/27/10 Federal Gulf Cleanup Costs at $87M and Rising
05/27/10 Chief of Agency Overseeing Offshore Drilling Quits
05/26/10 BP Considers Options To Plug Gusher, Investigates 'Complex Accident'
05/26/10 Website Channels Oil Spill Info
05/26/10 BP Cleanup Subs Were Using Undocumented Workers
05/20/10 New Surge Barrier Wall Cuts Risk In Time for Hurricane Season
05/19/10 Did BP Skip Approval for Platform Engineering Design?
05/19/10 Resentment Flares Against Dutch Proposal To Mobilize Huge Dredging Fleet in Gulf
05/19/10 Setting Oil Spill Liability Limit: Is $10 Billiion Too High?
05/19/10 Oil-Spill Battlefront Spreads From Gulf to Washington, D.C.
05/14/10 Senate Bill Would Implement Pacific Coast Oil-Drilling Ban

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