Sunken Rig News Today

Here are some of Rigzones top upstream stories during the last week, just in case you missed them... Here are some of Rigzone’s top upstream stories during the last week, just in case you missed them… Shell Makes Significant Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Find Shell Offshore Inc, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, announced a “significant” discovery at the Leopard prospect in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The Leopard well encountered more than 600 feet of net oil pay at multiple levels, ...

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 30th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 60 billion cubic feet to 1,958 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 345 billion cubic feet, or 15.0% below the 2,303 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 30th of last year, and 61 billion cubic feet, or 3.0% below the five-year average of 2,019 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have be...

Avo: all of great britain, all in one place book on expedia before april 30th and save up to thirty percent. the coast guard and the oil companies are trying to prevent an environmental tragedy. today a sheen of oil, up to 100 square miles, floats over the gulf. as crews work to contain the damage, environmentalists worry about sperm whales that feed near the sunken rig and the possibility the oil could harm the official fishing areas and the wetlands. >> that was nbc news chief environmental ...

Kyron. >> we have a houseboat reserved for august, and hes going to be home before then. >> reporter: desiree and cane told me that they still firmly believe he is out there somewhere alive. they have reason to believe that they said but they wouldnt say what that reason is. as for terry, the stepmother, she has retained a high-profile lawyer here in portland. she reportedly has denied the allegation that she tried to hire someone so kill her husband. so far she has not spoken out publicly, nor ...

Deep water horizon oil rig washing ashore in the florida panhandle. a second large storage tank turning up at miramar beach. officials from the local sheriffs office say bp was taking the tank to new orleans to investigate. a similar container washed up over the weekend on panama city beach some 40 miles south of miramar. 200 miles from where the deep water horizon exploded in april. we are told both tanks had markings suggesting they were part of the sunken rig. so far there is no sign the mass...

Washington post, a fourth man being held in pakistan claims to be shahzads accomplice. that suspect reportedly admitted helping shahzad travel into pakistans tribal areas for bomb training. >> and we last hour, we had said that if you were any part of this plot, id just keep my mouth shut. >> keep your head down. >> not admit it. just give the guy $35 and a pack of gum. >> yep. moving on. a lot of big stories to cover in this newscast. frustration growing in the gulf of mexico as bp says it is...

Protect. and the direct british petroleum and other contractors to provide them those resource. weve been working this issue extremely hard since we met with president in venice last sunday. >> thad allen, commandant of the coast guard, good luck to you and everyone else involved in its operation. we appreciate what youre doing. >> thank you, wolf. some of the worst fears are coming true in louisiana where oil from that sunken rig in the gulf of mexico is now washing up on some of those delica...

And are -- the effects are felt for a very long time. "exxon valdez." but when you look at over the years, the number of wells, the amount of oil weve pumped out of the ground, these things dont come along very often. >> look what three-mile island did for nuclear reactors for 30 years. >> stopped it dead in its tracks and we still havent gotten it started again. >> jack, thank you. all eyes and hopes are on a giant concrete and steel dome designed to cap the leak from a sunken rig thats spewi...

Wolf will be there. >> ill be there. >> you have a fantastic time. ill be thinking of you and i hope you take a moment to think of me. i know why they all blur together, everything will be blurry after a couple hours. >> reporter: thank you to wolf to crash his office. >> its always nice to be in "the situation room." we were just in "the situation room" for a moment. we are continuing our coverage of a major story. there are ten wildlife sanctuaries in the likely path of the oil from the sunk...

Ability here in "the situation room" happening now -- 42 now, gallons of crude oil spewing into the waters off louisiana each day from that sunken rig forming a 400-mile slick and threatening an environmental disaster ath its coast. stand by for information. and outlaw over the immigration law sparking violence and comparison to nazism. the mayor hears a controversy. this will tear his state apart he fears. he joins to us explain why the city will now sue. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situ...