08.09.2014
- British oil and petrochemicals group BP could be fined more than $18 billion by the US government for its April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico...
04.01.2013
- Transocean agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle U.S. government charges over BP's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 and the rig contractor admitted that its crew on the...
15.11.2012
- BP is expected to pay a record U.S. criminal penalty and plead guilty to criminal misconduct in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster through a plea deal reached with the Department...
27.04.2011
- Shareholders of offshore drilling contractors Ensco and Pride International will vote on May 31 on the proposed acquisition of Pride by Ensco for more than $7 billion. The deal...
05.08.2010
- BP said on Wednesday it was close to subduing its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well, and the White House hailed the "beginning of the end" of efforts to contain the worst spill in U...
26.07.2010
- BP was working to ready the first of two relief wells to bore into its blown-out Gulf of Mexico well about 3.9 km under the seabed and permanently plug and seal the leak. Along the...
13.07.2010
- Sal Sunseri's P&J Oyster Company has worked Louisiana waters since 1876, making it the oldest operating oyster processor in the United States. But the future is grim, he told a...
01.07.2010
- The U.S. has suddenly become a much riskier place for oil drillers to operate, a consequence of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that could spark a deal making binge. The offshore oil...
