The winning entry to our 2010 'Rebrand BP' competition
Another week, another push for reckless oil drilling by a UK company. This time it's BP, which wants to drill its deepest ever well in UK waters - a 1300 metre well - off the coast of North Uist.
We were there too and thought the chat did little to dispel the company’s growing reputation as a walking PR disaster. Whilst Shell boasted of having responded to over 80 questions, unfortunately their answers bore little relation to the questions being asked.
This was an hour long master class in obfuscation and evasion.
North Sea drilling platform Neddrill 7, co-chartered by Shell and Esso (1991)
Shell
has apologised for the
North Sea oil spill
and for its
own lack
of transparency saying: "The
fact is something has gone wrong here, so whatever risk assessment we
made about the condition of these pipes has proven to be wrong."
Te Whanau a Apanui fishing vessel and a Greenpeace inflatable take action against deep sea oil prospecting in the Raukumara Basin
As global oil reserves run low, the oil giants are looking further and further afield in search of new oil. From the Arctic to the extreme deep waters of New Zealand, the oil drillers are preparing to take greater and greater risks in the search for the last drops of oil - but they've got a fight on their hands.
Shell is planning to drill for oil in the Arctic but does it have all the answers?
What does the ongoing North Sea oil spill say about Shell's plans to open up the Arctic, where an accident would be all but impossible to clean up? Especially now the existence of a suspected second leak at its Gannett Alpha platform has been revealed?
As I write, Shell is working to contain an oil spill off the Aberdeenshire coast that is already, reportedly, the worst spill in UK waters for over a decade.
Posted by Richardg -
27 May 2011 at 4:45pm -
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There’s a dangerous storm brewing in the North Sea. But this is no natural
disaster - it’s been whipped up by oil and gas companies lobbying for a
major tax cut.
In the Budget, the Chancellor, George Osborne, announced a
fuel duty stabiliser. When oil prices were high – over $75 a barrel to be
precise – he’d cut taxes on motoring, and tax oil companies instead. When oil
prices dropped below $75 a barrel, he’d whack a tax on fuel, but give oil
companies a break.
Chevron's projection of a possible oil spill at its Lagavulin drill site in the North Sea
From Chevron to Shell,
Nigeria to the North Sea, the slippery mask of big oil was briefly removed this
week.
On Tuesday we learned from a leaked internal company report that
Transocean – the operators of BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig – had a partial “blow-out”
on one of its North Sea rigs only months before the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe.
As per the great British tradition, there was something fishy in yesterday's news: an interesting little snippet in PR Weekly, announcing that a new PR firm has been hired to work for Seafish.
Posted by jossc -
15 February 2008 at 2:14pm -
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It's official; mankind is killing off our oceans far faster than previously thought. The first global-scale study of human impacts on marine ecosystems, published today in the flagship US journal Science, reveals a picture of widespread destruction with few if any areas remaining untouched.
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