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Judge: BP Contract Shielded Halliburton in Spill
A federal judge has ruled that Halliburton can avoid paying most of the pollution claims that resulted from the catastrophic 2010 Gulf oil spill.
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Judge: BP Contract Shielded Transocean in Spill
A federal judge has ruled that the rig owner involved in drilling the ill-fated well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico was shielded by its contract with BP from having to pay many pollution claims in the nation's largest offshore oil spill.
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Offshore Lease Sale Set For June
The sale will take place in New Orleans on June 20.
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Ex-BP Employee Files Whistleblower Suit
A former BP employee who claims he was fired for airing concerns the company wasn't following federal rules for cleaning Mississippi's shoreline after the Gulf oil spill has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company.
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BP Denies Gulfport's Damages Claim
BP has told the city of Gulfport, Miss., that it has no documents to support a claim for $11.8 million in compensation for community damages from the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion and spill.
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Oil Spill Restoration Projects Focus On Environment
Officials in states hit by the oil disaster are looking at ways to spend $1 billion in BP money on restoration projects. Meetings in Alabama this week examine how the first $57 million will be spent.
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More Support for Settling BP Lawsuit
Go to court or settle? That's the question facing BP with a court date to determine liabilities in the Deepwater Horizon disaster just weeks away. Coastal mayors in one of the hardest hit counties are in favor of a settlement "if" it is fair.
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Report: BP Expected to Agree on $20-25 Billion Oil Spill Deal With DoJ
Oil giant BP will likely agree to pay the U.S. Department of Justice $20-$25 billion next month to settle all civil and criminal charges around the Deepwater Horizon rig blast and Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Feds Challenge Credibility of Former BP Executive
U.S. officials say a former BP executive was paid $107,000 a month to do consulting for a company lawyer, but allege the money may have been designed to influence her testimony during a deposition in litigation over the Gulf oil spill.
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BP Lawsuit: Trial or Settlement
We are just weeks away from a federal lawsuit that should determine the amount of damages BP will have to pay for the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange is co-ordinating counsel for the gulf states and says the case may never make it to court.
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BP Oil Lawsuits
We are just weeks away from the start of a trial nearly 2-years from the start of the BP oil disaster.
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Restoring What BP Destroyed
BP has set aside a billion dollars to pay for restoration projects along the Gulf of Mexico. Two of those multi-million dollar projects are here in Alabama and in Baldwin County, it's all about sand.
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BP Damage Payments Stalled by Court Order
Damage payments from the compensation fund for BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have been stopped temporarily.
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BP Says it is Entitled to Payment From Halliburton
BP has accused Halliburton of botching the cement job on the well.
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Deep Gulf Drilling Thrives 18 Months After BP Spill
Two hundred miles off the coast of Texas, ribbons of pipe are reaching for oil and natural gas deeper below the ocean's surface than ever before.
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Criminal Charges Mulled in BP Rig Blast
Justice Dept. probing whether U.S.-based engineers misled regulators about risks at Gulf well, WSJ reports.
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New B.P. Commercial Promoting Tourism Will Be Televised Nationally
B.P. has produced another national television commercial promoting Gulf Coast tourism.
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Restore Act: Gulf's Crime Victim Compensation
Billions of dollars hang in the balance as the gulf coast waits for congress to take action on the Restore Act. It is a blueprint on how fine money from the Deepwater Horizon disaster will be distributed. The future of the Gulf of Mexico is at stake.
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BP: Rig Partner Liable For Own Punitive Damages
BP wants to shield itself from having to compensate Halliburton for punitive damages, fines and penalties the cement contractor may face for its role in the deadly 2010 rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Justice Department Orders Audit of GCCF
The Justice Department is moving forward with an independent audit of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in charge of dispensing the 20 billion dollar compensation fund to victims of the BP oil disaster. A consulting firm based in New York will find out if Ken Feinberg is doing the job he was hired to do by the government.
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Shell Shuts Gulf Drilling Rig After Fluid Leak
Shell shuts Gulf drilling rig after fluid leak.
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BP Gets $250M From Maker Of Blowout Preventer
Cameron International, the maker of the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer that failed to stop last year's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has agreed to pay $250 million to BP under a legal settlement.
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Gulf Back Open For Drilling Business
Connoco-Phillips spent 103 million dollars for the right to drill a deepwater oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, near the Texas coast. That was just one of almost 200 tracts up for auction as the federal government opened bids for the first time since the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.
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8 Projects to Lead Oil Spill Restoration Efforts
A series of meetings is planned to solicit public input.
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Gulf Oil Tract Sale Will go Ahead
The federal government is moving ahead with the first auction of offshore petroleum leases in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon disaster - despite a lawsuit challenging the sale.
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