Petrol Malaysia

Dear visitor, Officially, 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil are pouring into the sea each day. The incident has also claimed 11 lives. BP is collecting about 20,000 barrels per day. (Source: Mirror (UK), 28th June 2010. BP will plug Gulf of Mexico oil leak in 2 weeks. ) Originally, when disaster first struck, the pundits estimated that about 1,000 barrels of oil was leaking into the sea each day. By the end of April 2010, this figure was revised to to 5,000 barrels per day. (Ref: New York Times, 28th April 2010. Size of Spill in Gulf of Mexico is Larger Than Thought. ) On 23rd June 2010, it was reported that oil was gushing unchecked after BP removed an oil cap, due to a crash by a remote-controlled submarine. (Ref: Physorg, 23rd June 2010. BP removes oil cap after submarine crash. ) An internal document, authored by BP, contemplates the worst case scenario: 100,000 barrels of oil gushing into the sea each day. (Ref: Reuters, 21st June 2010. Oil firms challenge deepwater dripping ban. ...

Dear Reader, For some inexplicable reason, this blog has been left untouched for a month since the last post about the Oil Blocks and Brunei. During that time, the world has witnessed oil in the news. Perhaps we will deal with these topics in the coming week, whenever I find the time. The big topic, internationally, is the oil spill from BP, which has wreaked havoc off the Gulf of Mexico. It looks like the environmentalists are busy trying to clean up the birds who have been caught in the oil slick. Locally, an oil spill took place in Singapore and part of it floated to Malaysia. (Ref: The Star, 28th May 2010. Singapore oil spill spreads to Malaysian waters .) The local oil spill took place when MT Bunga Kelana 3 collided with MV Waily in the Singapore Straits. 37,000 litres of oil have been collected off our Malaysian shoreline. (Ref: The Star, 6th June 2010. 37,000 litres of oil spill cleaned up. ) I came across the website of a Turkish musician, Derya Yavuz , who has made his ...