For many decades, BP Plc and Shell Plc were the closest of rivals — equivalent in size, with matching clout in energy markets ...

effectively ending litigation stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and subsequent oil spill. Former BP executive David Rainey was acquitted on charges of lying to congressional ...

State of Florida Governor Charlie Crist declared on Friday a state of emergency in coastal counties because of the threat from the oil spill in ... last week's explosion on a BP-operated rig ...

Oil giant BP has agreed to pay $20bn to settle claims with the US stemming from the company's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. An explosion on BP's deep-water drill, off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 ...

In this week’s hell-in-a-handcart news, the refusal of both the US and the UK to sign an international agreement on ...

The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act is the statute that authorizes the Department of the Interior to open public waters offshore for lease to oil ... the BP Deepwater Horizon spill.

Deepwater Horizon is a 2016 disaster film based on the BP oil spill. Directed by Peter Berg ... an oceanic drilling job that leads to a massive explosion and mass amounts of oil leaking into ...

Its funded by money from an $8 billion settlement with oil company BP, reached after its well leaked more than 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon ...

After the explosion on April 20 ... “It has a broader reach than the BP oil spill,” said Jason Clark, a Downs attorney. “If the burden is one that’s too high for any plaintiff to meet ...

Few foresaw the devastation to follow when the BP Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling rig exploded two weeks ... continue to respond.Crews began attempting to contain the spill shortly after the explosion ...

the BP oil spill (also known as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill or the Macando blowout) started on April 20, 2010, following an offshore rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Six years later, a New ...