There was a tiny car parked outside my house today, and it was not mine. Mine is the pick-up truck, with the Red Heeler in the passenger seat. (What can I say? It’s a guy …
‘Energy & Utilities’ Archive
Be Patient, BP’s new moniker
by Stuart Hampton, August 24, 2010, 8:48 am
It is somewhat ironic, as the dog days of summer drag on, that BP has agreed to take its time to make sure the “bottom kill” (the injection of drilling mud and cement into the …
Blow, baby, blow – wind energy takes hold
by Patrice Sarath, August 23, 2010, 1:37 pmOut in West Texas on Highway 10, there’s a whole lotta nothin’. I know, because on a family trip to New Mexico and Colorado in August, we had …
Green technology isn’t clean — but companies are trying
by Patrice Sarath, July 30, 2010, 12:11 pmThe vision of the environmentally conscious shining city on the hill – the Emerald City, perhaps? – might be clouded by all …
A fig leaf or a real fix? Big Oil’s plan for the next major underwater oil spill
by Stuart Hampton, July 26, 2010, 9:24 amLast week, in response to the three months that it took BP to temporarily shut down the oil spill caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, a handful of other major oil companies took action.
Like everyone, I watched the travails …
Deepwater Horizon: The beginning of the end — or a rig too far?
by Stuart Hampton, July 13, 2010, 8:20 am
As BP fine tunes its latest attempt to reduce and/or capture the flow of oil from the broken well in the remains of the Deepwater Horizon rig on the floor of the …
BP, Transocean, Halliburton, and Cameron International – which company will take the blame?
by Stuart Hampton, May 10, 2010, 9:23 am
With oil gushing at 5,000 barrels a day from a fractured well some 5,000 feet down in the Gulf of Mexico and frantic containment and clean up efforts underway, the question remains: Which company is responsible for the …
Worse things happen at sea — oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
by Stuart Hampton, April 26, 2010, 2:05 pm
My dearly departed mother was right.
“Worse things happen at sea” (a Victorian–era adage used by my mother to put the petty travails and domestic crises of my family into perspective. The phrase also shows up in the last …
