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BP wants to end future loss claims in Gulf spill

By doris | Published: July 9, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW ORLEANS — BP is arguing that victims of last year’s Gulf oil spill should not be paid any more claims for future losses because the areas affected by the spill have recovered and the economy is improving. The British oil company makes its case in a 29-page document filed with [...]

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BP gets $1 bln settlement from Gulf well partner

By doris | Published: May 20, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LONDON — BP has struck a deal to receive around $1 billion from one of its minority partners in the blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, raising hopes it will successfully pursue other companies involved and reduce its bill for the disaster. BP PLC said Thursday that MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC, which [...]

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SUVs for Gulf cleanup? States run up questionable bills with BP recovery money

By doris | Published: April 11, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW ORLEANS — Tasers. Brand-new SUVs. A top-of-the-line iPad. A fully loaded laptop. In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gadgets and other gear — much of which had little [...]

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Panel calls for drastic steps to stop future deepwater oil spills

By doris | Published: January 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — If the government does not take drastic steps, another deepwater oil spill like the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico could devastate the coastal areas of the United States, an oversight commission warned Tuesday in a long-awaited report to the president. More research, funding and oversight are [...]

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The well is dead, but Gulf challenges live on

By doris | Published: September 20, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com The “nightmare well” is dead. But the Gulf coast’s bad dream is far from over. Federal officials declared Sunday that the well where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded had finally been killed. Workers drilled a relief well into the damaged one and sealed it with cement. Its official end came 11 [...]

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Where did the oil go? Researchers point to sea floor

By doris | Published: September 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A team of researchers in the Gulf of Mexico say they found an oily layer as thick as two inches coating the sea floor in some places, and they believe it may be from the BP spill. “I think what we’re seeing is oil that was on the surface, [...]

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U.S.: 3,500 unused Gulf wells must be plugged

By doris | Published: September 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON — Oil and gas companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico will have to permanently plug nearly 3,500 temporarily abandoned wells and dismantle about 650 production platforms that are no longer used, the Obama administration announced Wednesday. The move comes as the energy industry voices complaints that it is being [...]

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Scientists question U.S. estimate on BP oil fallout

By doris | Published: August 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com MIAMI — Two new scientific reports Tuesday raised fresh fears about the environmental fallout from the world’s worst offshore oil spill and questioned government assurances that most of the oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico was already gone. In one of the reports, researchers at the University [...]

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Gulf oil rig’s owner had safety issue at 3 other wells

By doris | Published: August 5, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The company that owned the oil rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April had widespread safety concerns about several of its other rigs in the gulf, and a month before the disaster it commissioned a broad review of the safety culture of the company’s North American operations, according [...]

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BP: ‘Static kill’ is working on Gulf well

By doris | Published: August 4, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — BP said Wednesday that it had reached the “desired outcome” in a procedure in which it pumped mud down the throat of the blown-out well that is leaking in the Gulf of Mexico. BP spokeswoman Sheila Williams said the mud is holding the oil down. [...]

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Officials optimistic amid preparations to seal Gulf oil well

By doris | Published: July 29, 2010

Full Story CNN.com (CNN) — One hundred days after an oil well operated by BP ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico, and 13 days after crews finished capping the well to contain the gushing crude, the man who is overseeing the federal response is optimistic that steps planned for the coming days will finally, permanently [...]

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BP resumes work on relief well

By doris | Published: July 26, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW ORLEANS — Ships were getting back in place Sunday at the Gulf of Mexico site of BP’s leaky oil well as crews restarted work on plugging the gusher before another big storm stops work again. Piping for the main relief well being drilled was being reinstalled and should be ready [...]

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BP tech team: Priority is to ‘see’ oil underwater

By doris | Published: July 25, 2010

Full Story at news.CNET.com Everything from high-tech imaging gear to plastic bags with screens is being tested by a “skunk works” team at BP set up to evaluate cleanup methods in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil company’s High Interest Technology Team, based in Mobile, Ala., is currently sifting through thousand of proposals to fix [...]

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Allen says seep has been detected, demands results from BP tests

By doris | Published: July 19, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Testing continues and scientists are evaluating the results to decide whether to resume collecting oil from BP’s ruptured deepwater well, the company said Monday. BP’s statement came hours after Thad Allen, the federal government’s oil spill response director, said that testing had revealed a “detected seep a distance from [...]

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No oil leaking as BP conducts critical pressure tests in Gulf oil well

By doris | Published: July 16, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — A highly anticipated test designed to measure pressure within BP’s ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well finally began Thursday, and for the first time in nearly three months, oil stopped flowing into the Gulf. The move was lauded by a variety of officials as a positive [...]

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‘Integrity’ testing on Gulf well cap delayed

By doris | Published: July 14, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — BP has put off crucial “integrity tests” on the new stacking cap on its ruptured Gulf oil well so it can review testing procedures, a review expected to take place through the night and into Wednesday. The oil giant had expected the tests — to check [...]

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New cap on ruptured oil well faces key tests

By doris | Published: July 13, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — BP plans to begin testing the new cap on its ruptured deepwater well Tuesday — a move that officials hope will be a step on the way to stopping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. “This test involves closing one or more of the [...]

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BP works to replace containment cap over ruptured well

By doris | Published: July 11, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com Why can’t they get it right? This company didn’t do any research on taking a oil pipe leak until it happen.  Just like all the other businesses, wait till the horse gets out of the barn then fix the problem. What about planning ahead just in case something happens. This is just [...]

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House passes bill on oil-spill damages; weather slows cleanup

By doris | Published: July 2, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that removes limits on financial damages that can be awarded for accidents off the U.S. coastline, such as the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers. The bill updates maritime laws that have [...]

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Tropical storm forms as oil spill battle continues

By doris | Published: June 26, 2010

Full Story atCNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — Tropical Storm Alex — the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season this year — formed in the Caribbean on Saturday as BP continued to battle a massive oil spill in the Gulf. Alex had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph (65 kph) and was about [...]

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