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Improved safety device could prevent BP-type oil spills
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The National Academy of Engineering is recommending that oil and gas companies spend millions on a modified blowout preventer. This is the $45 million device that failed and caused the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
U.S. charges ex-BP engineer with obstruction of justice
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
A former BP engineer has been arrested and charged with intentionally destroying evidence related to how much oil was spilling from the company's broken well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
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What happened to the oil from the BP spill?
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
2010's Gulf oil spill put almost 5 million barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Where did it all go?
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The decisions that led to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Monday, April 16, 2012
A new book explores how BP's management led to Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and whether it could happen again.
BP oil spill trial postponed
Monday, February 27, 2012
The "trial of the century" has been postponed for one week, and the oil giant seems to be scrambling to quickly settle out-of-court.
BP has a lot at stake in 'trial of the century'
Monday, February 27, 2012
BP and other companies involved in the Gulf oil spill could face over $50 billion in damages.
BP sues Halliburton for full costs of 2010 spill
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
In the lawsuit, BP holds Halliburton responsible for the failure of a cement lid placed over the blown out deepwater oil well, and thus the entire cleanup for the incident.
BP seeks to blame Halliburton for oil spill
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
British oil giant BP has filed court papers demanding the Houston-based firm Halliburton pay billions of dollars in clean-up and compensation costs for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
MIDDAY UPDATE: BP oil spill, toning shoes, and the Recession Generation
Thursday, January 6, 2011
A series of cost cutting tactics and management failures by BP and other companies, including Halliburton, are to blame for the Gulf oil spill...
MID-DAY UPDATE: GDP is up, cement gets the blame and Fox loses younger viewers
Friday, October 29, 2010
The U.S. gross domestic product grew at a 2 percent clip, somewhat less than analysts were expecting. On the election ballot in San Francisco --...
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