Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America

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Index Afghanistan, 1 Agnew, Spiro, 123 Airline industry, 162–163 Alabama, 59 Alaska, 138, 166–167, 184 ARCO and, 118 BP and, 118, 165 Bush (George W.) and, 2 coastal residence and, 133–134 Deadhorse, 123 energy independence and, 115–127 Exxon Valdez and, 17 (see also Exxon Valdez oil spill) Gravel Amendment and, 123 Hickel (Walter) and, 118–121 highways and, 133–134 Humble and, 118 Klondike gold rush in, 116 limited resources of, 175–176 litigation by State of, 140 logistics of drilling in, 116 Native protests in, 117–119, 121 North Slope, 33, 43, 115–117, 119, 174 oil leases in, 116–119, 124–126 oil seep discovery in, 116 Outer Continental Shelf and, 141 Point Barrow, 116–117 Prince William Sound, 37, 154, 156 Prudhoe Bay, 3, 43, 118–119, 174 public domain and, 117 U.S. Department of the Interior and, 117–118, 120–121, 123, 125–128 Valdez, 36, 38–39, 122, 175 Yukon River, 123 Alaska Marine Highway, 134 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), 121 Alaskan Federation of Natives, 117 Alaskan pipeline Prudhoe Bay and, 43 rupture of, 41 Trans-Alaskan Pipeline Authorization Act, 123 Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), 3, 102, 118, 120, 122–123 Valdez and, 36 226 Index Alyeska Pipeline Service Company , 39, 120, 123 Amerada-Hess, 118–119 “American oil,” 64 American Planning Association, 109–110 Amoco Caldiz spill, 156 Anadarko Petroleum, 57–58, 165 Andrus, Cecil, 127 Andry, Albert III, x–xi Anglo-American Petroleum Company, 78 Anglo-Dutch Shell Oil Company , 103 Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 103, 106, 114 Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 90, 102–103 Angola, 18 Antitrust laws, 197n24 Justice Department and, 109 Sherman Antitrust Act and, 78–79, 84, 177 Texas and, 80, 82 Arabian Light crude oil, 114 Arabian Peninsula, 103 Arab-Israeli war, 114 Arab Oil Embargo of 1973, 113–114, 143, 183 Archbold, John, 80 ARCO (Atlantic Richfield Company ), 118 Arctic Circle, 115 Arctic Ocean, 2–3 Arctic Slope Native Association, 117 Area-wide leasing environmental issues and, 139– 140, 144–149, 172–173, 186 U.S. Department of the Interior and, 172–173 Aspheron Peninsula, 66 Associated Press, 43, 56, 59 ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) International , 66 Astor, John Jacob, 76 Atchafalaya River, 135 Atrophy of vigilance, 35–39, 41–42, 159 Automobiles, 20, 37, 143 advantage of oil and, 72 American “love affair” with, 107 dependency on, 85–86 Federal-Aid Highway Acts and, 110–111 General Motors and, 88, 109–111 Great Depression and, 106–107 housing and, 108–110 Model T Ford and, 79 National Interstate and Defense Highways Act and, 111–112 oil consumption and, 106–107 required parking for, 109–110 streetcar removal and, 109 World War II era and, 107 Baku, 66 Bankruptcy, 17, 111 Barab, Jordan, 169–170 Barge-mounted draglines, 96 Barrel unit, 71 Barron, Daniel, III, 192n5 Barry, Dave, 97 Barton, Joe L., 19, 58, 60, 194n41 Index 227 Bayous, 94, 97, 134–135 Bea, Bob, 162 Benzene, 41 “Beyond Petroleum” slogan, 40 Bird migration, 11–12 Bligh Reef, 36–37, 51 Blowout preventers, 15, 29, 45, 55, 93, 196n2 clean-ups and, 159–161 development of, 93 explanation of, 29 previous success of, 10–11 Sepulvado (Ronald) and, 44 shear ram and, 159–161, 164 Blowouts. See also Deepwater Horizon (drilling rig) backups and, 50 cement bond log and, 49 gushers, 11, 17, 31, 80–83, 116, 156 Loop Current and, 11, 54 policy for reducing, 158–170 skimmers and, 14, 53–54, 154–157 Spindletop and, 80–83 Bourg, Wes, xi Boycotts, 106 BP, 2, 74. See also Deepwater Horizon (drilling rig) Alaskan oil and, 118, 165 Anarko Petroleum and, 58 as Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 103, 106, 114 atrophy of vigilance and, 35– 39, 41–42, 159 Barton’s apology to, 19, 58, 60, 194n41 Beyond Petroleum slogan and, 40 as British Petroleum, 39–40 Brown and, 40 casing installation decisions of, 47–49 casual approach to safety by, 34–61, 161–162 cement bond log and, 49 centralizers and, 48–49 clean-ups and, 153, 155–166, 169 drilling mud removal and, 50–51 environmental issues and, xii (see also Environmental issues) exclusion (debarring) and, 43, 164–166 fines of, 41–42 Hayward (Tony) and, xii, 12, 40–42, 46, 58, 152 House Committee on Energy and Commerce and, 46–47 job cutting by, 40–41 judicial branch and, 59 Macondo...