The continuing flood of oil from the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico has produced a continuing flood of news and opinion coverage.
The views of Iraj Ershaghi, who is the holder of the Omar B. Milligan Chair in Petroleum Engineering and director of the Viterbi School's petroleum engineering program, have received wide reporting, and Ershaghi himself has written on the topic.
Highlight of Media Presences:
89.3 KPCC - June 23 Patt Morrison Show. 'Fixing & Learning from the BP disaster:' Sen. Bernie Sanders, Iraj Ershaghi, Rich Steiner, U. of Alaska
89.3 KPCC - June 1 Airtalk: Guests: ....Iraj Ershaghi, Director of the Petroleum Engineering program at USC
AP - June 19: "Obama spill panel big on policy, not engineering.
"Fox News - June 11: Ershaghi gives viewers a visual lesson in "Oil Drilling 101"
BBC - June 9: BBC readers submitted 18 ideas for oil spill containtment, ranging from nuclear devices to polystyrene beads, which "were assessed by Iraj Ershaghi..."
BBC - May 26 "It is like two forces fighting with each other. If the force downwards exceeds the force upwards, you are going to succeed,
CNN - June 1 QUEST MEANS BUSINESS "Professor Iraj Ershaghi, the director of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Southern California joins me..."LA TIMES May 30 "Ershaghi .. warned that continuing to inject mud into the well at extreme pressure could have broken pipes..."
LA TIMES May 25 "Ershaghi estimated that the upward pressure was likely to be 9,000 pounds per square inch..."
Daily Breeze -May 25 OP-ED "...Specific facts about technology, geology and economics should be kept in the equation - including the possibility that banning offshore drilling may actually lead to more oil spills."
Source: www.usc.edu