BP appeals to Cameron over US crisis
BP appeals to Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene over the escalating compensation costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
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Monday, May 20th, 2013
Sunday, April 21st, 2013
Florida sues BP over Gulf oil spill
It is the fourth state to seek damages related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Testimony ends in gulf disaster trial
Testimony ended in a federal trial to determine civil liability faced by BP and other companies as a result of the fatal 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in...
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Transocean should have done more before 2010 Gulf spill: CEO
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The chief executive of Transocean Ltd, owner of the rig destroyed after BP Plc's Macondo well blew out in 2010, told a federal judge on...
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
BP executive says explosion was known risk
Testifying for the company in a federal trial, Lamar McKay, the former chief executive of BP America, concedes that a well blowout was identified as a hazard before the...
Monday, February 25th, 2013
High-stakes trial begins over 2010 Gulf oil spill
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- With billions of dollars at stake, a trial to figure out how much more BP and other companies should pay for the nation's worst offshore oil...
Friday, January 4th, 2013
Feds, Transocean reach $1.4B deal over Gulf spill
The Justice Department reached a $1.4 billion settlement Thursday with Transocean Ltd., the owner of the drilling rig that sank after an explosion killed 11 workers and...
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
EPA temporarily suspends BP from U.S. federal gov't contracts
WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that it has temporarily suspended BP Plc and its affiliates from new...
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
BP gets record fine for Gulf oil spill
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Oil giant BP has agreed to pay the largest criminal penalty in U.S. history, totaling billions of dollars, for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,...
Monday, September 24th, 2012
Gulf oil drilling rebounds
After a steep drop in oil production in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is set for an energy boom boosted by new projects by BP and others.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
BP in $5.5B deal to sell Gulf fields
BP reached a deal to sell some of its Gulf of Mexico offshore oil fields to Plains Exploration & Production for $5.55 billion, as BP continues to divest itself of...
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012
Oceanographers accuse BP of an assault on academic freedom
A pair of scientists have accused BP of an attack on academic freedom after the oil company successfully subpoenaed thousands of confidential emails related to research on...
Friday, April 27th, 2012
BP engineer's arrest may force company to reveal internal estimates on Gulf spill
Company disputes government figures but has fought release of its own data on how much oil leaked into Gulf of Mexico in 2010The unveiling of the first criminal charges in...
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Engineer charged in BP spill case
HOUSTON — Two years after the immense BP oil spill that killed 11 people and blackened beaches along the Gulf of Mexico, federal prosecutors have filed the first criminal...
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Poll: Support for offshore drilling returns to pre-spill levels
Support for expanded offshore drilling, which dropped after the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, has shot back up to pre-spill levels, according to a new...
Sunday, March 4th, 2012
BP, plaintiffs reach $7.8B Gulf spill settlement
NEW YORK (AP) – BP's multibillion-dollar settlement with people and businesses harmed by its 2010 oil spill removes some uncertainty about the potential financial...
Monday, February 27th, 2012
BP oil spill trial adjourned for a week
LONDON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Oil major BP said on Sunday that the start of hearings in litigation related to its Gulf of Mexico oil spill were being delayed for a week to...
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Transocean says to halt dividend
Feb 20 (Reuters) - Shares of offshore drilling contractor Transocean fell 5 percent on Monday after the company said it will not propose an annual dividend this year.
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
BP seeks recovery of all Gulf spill costs from Halliburton
BP Plc (BP/) seeks to have Halliburton Co. (HAL), its cement contractor for the Macondo well project whose blowout set off the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, pay all of...
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
Criminal charges prepared in BP spill
U.S. prosecutors are preparing what would be the first criminal charges against BP employees stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident, which killed 11 workers and...
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