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You remember the August 4, 2010 "Oil Budget" published by NOAA and the USGS that most of the oil spilled from BP's Macondo well blowout had magically disappeared.  In a White House press conference held that day, retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen did a victory lap that the leaking well was "static" and Jane Lubchenco joined in the happy talk saying that fish that had ingested oil would quickly rid themselves of that oil...

Today, the Washington Post reviewed 3 books on the Gulf blowout, including mine, Disaster on the Horizon.  Click here for the story....

Today, I was on Fox News Studio B with Shepard Smith, talking about the WikiLeaks release of diplomatic cables confirming Saudi Arabia's gross overstatement of their oil reserves and production capacity.  Have a look:Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com...

A huge fire erupted at Enterprise Products Mont Belvieu natural gas fractionation facility about 3 hours ago.  So far, the cause is unknown.  The function of the facility is separate various products like methane, ethane, propane and gasoline in the gas stream.  It appears the fire occurred at a large manifold in the plant.  We'll be following this story....

As we've discussed before, the practice of hydraulic fracturing to produce oil and gas has grown into a controversy being argued about in local townhalls all over the country all the way to the halls of Congress in Washington.  Making matters worse, as usually happens when it comes to environmental issues, it's hard to sort out fact from fiction.  Hydraulic fracturing and the issues surrounding it is no different.  This controversy started years ago with...

This after a federal court ruling last week that Feinberg is NOT independent from BP.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/04/justice-dept-oil-spill_n_818880.html...

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I know I keep saying it, but I told you so.  The Observer is reporting that, according to its sources, the EPA is likely to agree to cut its current estimate of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico by BP's Macondo well that blew out on April 20.  BP has officially disputed the government's estimate, saying that it could be half of the official estimate, citing multiple estimates and lack of actual measurement of...

Hydraulic fracturing, known as frac'ing, of oil and gas wells has been a common practice for decades yet little is understood about this complex, and potentially very dangerous well treating practice.  In the last 10 to 15 years, more and more questions have been raised by both the environmental community and regulatory agencies, and the industry has characteristically kept most information under wraps, citing proprietary technology as their reasons for concealing specific chemicals and concentrations...