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 ...

However, offshore oceanic impacts are less well understood. The BP oil spill is introducing oil and methane gas into the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Previous studies on deepwater drilling ...

BP has been fined £7,000 over an oil spill during which 95 tonnes of crude oil was discharged off Shetland. Investigators found that a "process failure" led to the incident at the Clair Platform ...

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 ...

At the time of the explosion, the British Petroleum mobile ... they also noted that their absence could have other causes besides the oil spill. The Deepwater disaster is but one environmental ...

More than six years on from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP has finally released a ‘reliable estimate’ of the final bill. Having recently taken steps to resolve all of the outstanding claims ...

The rig explosion killed 11 people ... which was used to determine BP's liability. In the 10 years following the spill, the oil company spent about $69 billion on cleanup. Some species of ...

With one day left to… U.S., five states announce settlement with BP over gulf oil spill The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims ...

Fourteen years ago, the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon ... The Gulf of Mexico explosion took the lives of 11 people, released 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf over 87 straight ...

The declaration came several days after Russian President Vladimir Putin called the oil spill an “ecological disaster.” The oil continues to surface days after the spillages On Wednesday ...