Gulf Oil Spill News

Texas on Friday became the latest state to sue BP, Halliburton and others tied to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, alleging the parties "engaged in willful and wanton misconduct" and seeking penalties and damages "to the fullest extent allowed by law."

Texas has become the fifth state to sue British oil company BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, seeking damages for the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico

Texas has become the fifth state to sue British oil company BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, seeking damages for the 2010 disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Judge postpones trial of ex-BP engineer charged with deleting texts about Gulf oil spill        

The State of Texas today filed a lawsuit against BP America and other defendants for their role in the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon offshore oil spill. The State’s enforcement action seeks natural resource damages, economic damages and civil penalties caused by the oil spill.

By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The deadline for claims against BP Plc in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is 11 months away, but the man responsible for paying the claims said on Thursday he is already bracing for a late surge in filings. Patrick Juneau, a Lafayette, Louisiana attorney experienced in complex litigation, was named by U.S. Judge Carl Barbier last year to ...

By Margaret Cronin Fisk & Allen Johnson Jr. - 2013-05-17T18:16:55Z The trial of a former BP Plc (BP/) engineer charged in the first criminal case arising from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill was postponed to December from June, a judge said.

The oil giant says lawyers are encouraging Gulf Coast businesses to make spurious claims just to earn a commission.

Dennis Woltering / Eyewitness News Email: dwoltering@wwltv.com | Twitter: @dwoltering When the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion killed 11 men in the Gulf of Mexico and led to the worst oil spill in American history, BP promised to make everything right. But three years later many people BP hired to clean up the mess say their exposure to the chemicals has led to serious illnesses with no ...

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The deadline for claims against BP Plc in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is 11 months away, but the man responsible for paying the claims said on Thursday he ...

Oil giant BP has warned that millions of dollars of “fictitious” compensation claims for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are putting the company at risk.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The deadline for claims against BP Plc in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is 11 months away, but the man responsible for paying the claims said on Thursday he ...

By Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The deadline for claims against BP Plc in connection with the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is 11 months away, but the man responsible for paying the claims said on Thursday he is already bracing for a late surge in filings. Patrick Juneau, a Lafayette, Louisiana attorney experienced in complex litigation, was named by U.S. Judge Carl Barbier last year to ...

Tony Hayward became the center of a PR firestorm in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. In addition to the massive environmental damage that resulted from the spill, Hayward's response left a lot to be desired , saying at one point that he "wanted his life back."

LONDON, May 16 (UPI) -- Oil giant BP has turned to the government for help with the compensation deal for victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the BBC reported.

http://www.datasite.com - The US oil and gas sector could soon see a raft of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity as a result of the new regulations brought in following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (PRWeb May 16, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/merrill-virtual-data-room/New-regulations/prweb10736444.htm

BP is seeking to stop paying millions of dollars in what it calls spurious compensation claims stemming from the catastrophic 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

By Clara Ferreira-Marques and Emma Farge LONDON/ZUG, Switzerland (Reuters) - A shareholder coup at newly merged commodities group Glencore Xstrata ousted its chairman and all former Xstrata directors on Thursday, replacing him with former BP boss Tony Hayward, excoriated for his role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The move returns Hayward to the limelight at one of London's largest firms ...

The financial recovery of BP from the disaster of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is being put in jeopardy by the amounts of compensation being paid out to businesses in the Gulf of Mexico region.

Tony Hayward was appointed interim chairman of Glencore Xstrata on Thursday, almost three years after he resigned as chief executive of BP after a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.