Reports that Matter

Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling

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  1. 175 Testimony of Capt. Alwin Landry, 112. Internal BP document (BP-HZN-OSC 1436). Marine Well Containment Company, "Industry Initiatives to Ensure Safe, Protective Drilling Practices in the Deepwa- ter Gulf of Mexico: The Marine Well Containment System" (presentation, Washington, D.C., September 2010).
  2. 182 Walsh, "Forced to Become Emergency Workers, Fishermen Say BP Never Even Said Thanks." Interview with Coast Guard official, August 26, 2010; Interview with Coast Guard official, September 2, 2010; Non-public Coast Guard document, June 14, 2010.
  3. 864 to 41 in the span of one year.
  4. 190 Interview with NOAA officials, November 18, 2010. Press Release, Munich Re, Munich Re Develops New Insurance Solution for Oil Catastrophes, September 12, 2010, http://www.munichre.com/en/media_relations/press_releases/2010/2010_09_12_press_release.aspx; Munich Re executives, telephone interview with Commission staff, September 17, 2010.
  5. 196 Craig Pittman and Rebecca Catalanello, "BP Plan to Protect Florida From Oil Spill Inadequate, Officials Say," St. Petersburg Times, May 3, 2010.
  6. 198 Non-public Coast Guard document, October 12, 2010. One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez), 53 OPEC oil embargo (1973), 31, 56, 296 Orca Energy (Dunhill), 227 Oregon, offshore oil and gas industry in, 26, 67, 297 Oryx Energy, 43, 226 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and Amendments (1953/1978), 23, 30, 57–64, 79, 80, 84, 254–56, 262–64 Outer Continental Shelf Safety Oversight Board, 78–79, 78n, 82 Overton, Keith, 191 oysters, in Gulf of Mexico, 140, 163, 176, 178–79, 186–87 Paradis, Joseph, 130 Parish Presidents (Louisiana), 139–40, 154 Patzek, Tad, 229 Pemex, 254, 300 Pennsylvania, oil and gas industry in, 296 Pennzoil, 32 Perdido site, 51
  7. 202 Angel Gonzalez, "Locals to BP: Don't Leave Town Yet," Wall Street Journal, Aug. 1, 2010; Interview with Coast Guard official, August 26, 2010.
  8. 213 Agency comments were compiled by the Army Corps of Engineers at http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/news/ Emergency%20Permit%20Documents%20Compressed%20FINAL.pdf.
  9. 214 Transcript, Press Briefing by National Incident Commander, June 2, 2010.
  10. 215 Press Release, Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center, Admiral Allen Approves One Section of Louisi- ana Barrier Island Project Proposal as Part of Federal Oil Spill Response, May 27, 2010.
  11. 216 NIC Decision Support Document Regarding Barrier Island Proposal Based Upon Interagency Solutions Group Dis- cussion and Army Corps of Engineers NOD 20 Permit Discussions, May 17, 2010; Draft, Berm Construction and Spill Response, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, May 19, 2010; Berm Construction and Spill Response, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, May 25, 2010.
  12. 217 Admiral Thad Allen, e-mail to Captain Mike White, May 22, 2010.
  13. 221 Transcript, Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, "BP Cleanup Sham; President Obama Visits Louisiana; Oystermen in Jeopardy," CNN, May 28, 2010.
  14. 232 Sean Smith, e-mail to Juliette Kayyem, Department of Homeland Security, May 27, 2010.
  15. 236 Tooms, interview; Non-public BP document, May 31, 2010.
  16. 239 Interview with Coast Guard official, October 18, 2010; Interview with U.S. Geological Survey official, October 21, 2010.
  17. 245 Lynch, interview.
  18. 248 "BP Chief Hopes Cap Will Capture Most of Gulf Oil," Reuters, June 6, 2010.
  19. 249 Doug Suttles, letter to Admiral James Watson, June 9, 2010 (suggesting that with the Clear Leader attached to the kill line, BP could collect 5-10,000 barrels per day).
  20. 259 Charles Huber, e-mail to Commander William Carter and Captain Roger Laferriere, July 13, 2010.
  21. 260 Mathy Stanislaus, e-mail to Admiral Paul Zukunft, July 13, 2010.
  22. 262 EPA, "July 11-14 Dispersant Request Summary," (provided to Commission staff October 21, 2010).
  23. 266 Interview with U.S. Department of Energy official, November 8, 2010.
  24. 267 Interview with U.S. Geological Survey official, October 21, 2010.
  25. 269 Interview with U.S. Department of Energy official, November 8, 2010.
  26. 273 Suttles, interview; Tooms, interview.
  27. 277 Suttles, interview.
  28. 283 Admiral Thad Allen, letter to Bob Dudley, July 14, 2010.
  29. 284 Interviews with U.S. Geological Survey official, October 20, 2010; Non-public U.S. Department of Energy docu- ment, July 11, 2010.
  30. 285 Non-public government document, July 11, 2010; Interview with U.S. Department of Energy official, October 25, 2010.
  31. 286 Campbell Robertson and Henry Fountain, "BP Says Oil Flow Has Stopped as Cap Is Tested," New York Times, July 15, 2010.
  32. 291 Non-public U.S. Department of Energy document, June 30, 2010.
  33. 292 Interview with U.S. Geological Survey official, October 21, 2010; Interview with U.S. Geological Survey official, October 21, 2010.
  34. 293 Tooms, interview; Interview with U.S. Geological Survey official, October 21, 2010; Interview with U.S. Geological Survey official, October 21, 2010.
  35. 299 Press Release, BP, Static Kill Injectivity Testing Commences on MC252 Well, August 3, 2010; Non-public U.S. Depart- ment of Energy document, August 3, 2010.
  36. 307 Margaret Spring, e-mail to Heather Zichal and others. July 30, 2010.
  37. 308 Transcript, Press Briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Admiral Thad Allen, Carol Browner, and Dr. Lubchenco, August 4, 2010.
  38. 309 David A. Fahrenthold, "Scientists Question Government Team's Report of Shrinking Gulf Oil Spill," Washington Post, August 5, 2010; Katie Howell, "White House, Critics Reach Stalemate in Dispute Over Oil Budget in Gulf," New York Times, August 23, 2010.
  39. 310 Editorial, "Do the Math on the Spill," Times-Picayune, August 6, 2010.
  40. 311 Press Conference, Jane Lubchenco Discusses Federal Peer-Reviewed "Oil Budget" Technical Documentation, November 23, 2010.
  41. 312 Press Release, NOAA, Federal Interagency Group Issues Peer-Reviewed 'Oil Budget' Technical Documentation, Novem- ber 23, 2010.
  42. 313 Federal Interagency Solutions Group, Oil Budget Science and Engineering Team, Oil Budget Calculator Technical Documentation (November 2010).
  43. 314 Interview with Coast Guard official, October 24, 2010.
  44. 315 Shaw's Environmental & Infrastructure Group, Shaw Barrier Berm Project—Daily Report Day 44 (July 15, 2010).
  45. 316 Padgett, "Dredge, Baby, Dredge: Can Sand Stop the Oil?"
  46. 317 Press Release, Office of the Governor, Governor Jindal Announces Agreement with BP for Seafood Safety, Coastal Restoration & Tourism Funding, November 1, 2010.
  47. 318 Cain Burdeau, "EPA: Louisiana's Sand Berms Not Stopping Much Oil," Associated Press, September 10, 2010; Mark Ballard, "EPA Opposes La. Berms," Advocate, September 9, 2010; John Maginnis, "Louisiana's Sand Berms Chal- lenged," Times-Picayune, September 15, 2010; Interview with government official, September 22, 2010; Transcript, Meet the Press, November 21, 2010 (Governor Jindal stating "[w]e've collected thousands of pounds of oily debris off these berms"); Oil Budget Technical Documentation, 34 ("Based upon past spills, the oil content of collected debris mass is only a few percent.").
  48. 319 Bobby Jindal, Leadership and Crisis 6 (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2010).
  49. 320 Statement from Admiral Allen on the Successful Completion of the Relief Well, September 19, 2010.
  50. 321 Press Release, NOAA, NOAA Reopens One-Third of Closed Gulf Fishing Area, July 22, 2010; Press Release, NOAA, NOAA Reopens More Than 8,000 Square Miles in the Gulf of Mexico to Fishing, November 15, 2010.
  51. 322 Kim Murphy, "A Poor Appetite for Gulf Seafood," Los Angeles Times, August 26, 2010; Interview with government official, October 15, 2010.
  52. 323 Krissah Thompson, "Waste from BP Oil Spill Cleanup Has Gulf Residents Near Landfills Concerned," Washington Post, August 16, 2010. 324 40 C.F.R. § 261.4(b)(5).
  53. 326 Elana Schor, "How Has BP's Oily Waste Escaped 'Hazardous' Label?," New York Times, July 20, 2010.
  54. 327 Admiral Paul Zukunft, letter to Doug Suttles, July 24, 2010; BP, "Waste and Recoverable Material Tracking," http:// www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9034343&contentId=7063466.
  55. 328 Schor, "How Has BP's Oily Waste Escaped 'Hazardous' Label?"; EPA, "Waste Sampling Strategy and Results," http:// www.epa.gov/bpspill/waste.html#sampling_strategy; Stanislaus, interview.
  56. 329 EPA, "Waste Management on the Gulf Coastline," http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/waste.html.
  57. 330 Robert Bullard and Al Huang, "Oil's Toxic Legacy Not Erased," Politico, August 13, 2010.
  58. 331 Lesley Clark and Fred Tasker, "Oil-Soaked Waste Worries Gulf Coast Landfills' Neighbors," McClatchy Newspapers, July 30, 2010; Robert Bullard, "Government Allows BP to Dump Oil-Spill Waste on Black Communities," OpEd- News.com, July 22, 2010.
  59. 332 Stanislaus, interview.
  60. 333 Admiral Paul Zukunft, letter to Mike Utsler, August 9, 2010; Stanislaus, interview.
  61. 334 "Statement from Admiral Allen on the Transfer of Oversight Responsibilities, October 1, 2010. Chapter Six