The U.S. Department of the Interior said Monday that it wants to reverse some Trump administration rollbacks of offshore safety rules to prevent blowouts like the BP catastrophe that killed 11 people and fouled the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. …
BP Plc said it agreed to pay $175 million to settle claims by U.S. investors that its managers lied about the size of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill to prop up its stock price, removing the company’s last …
BP Plc won’t have to face lawsuits by energy and oilfield service companies over losses they blamed on the U.S. offshore drilling ban imposed after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The court ruling eliminates one of the largest …
A Florida State University researcher and his team have developed a comprehensive analysis of oil in the Gulf of Mexico and determined how much of it occurs naturally and how much came from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. And more …
A Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges of lying about his past employment to get $25,800 in oil-spill recovery money. The Sun Herald reports Shawn Albert Townsel will be sentenced March 26. Prosecutors say Townsel received the …
A new study says oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is still trapped in Alabama’s beaches four years later. The report was released recently by Auburn University researchers who’ve been studying the BP oil spill since shortly after it occurred. …
BP PLC estimated in 2010 that it faced about $40 billion in potential liabilities from the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers and spilled oil into the Gulf of Mexico for months. Now its shares are suffering as the …
A former BP Plc senior engineer found guilty last year of destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was granted a new trial based on his claim of juror misconduct during deliberations. Kurt Mix was convicted …
BP Plc wasn’t prepared for a blowout at its deep-water Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, a safety expert who studied the 2010 oil spill told a judge who is assessing how well the company reacted to the disaster. …
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 Tuesday that his workers made mistakes that day, but were not responsible for overall safety …