
BP oil disaster News


BP Spill Leads to Proposed Risk Reduction Rules For Offshore Oil Wells
The Obama administration proposed tighter rules for the offshore drilling equipment designed to be a last line of defense against oil-well blowouts, five years after the fatal BP Plc spill off ...
BP Wants Appeals Court To Slash Size of 2010 Gulf of Mexico Spill
BP Plc asked a federal appeals court in New Orleans to review a trial judge's ruling that 3.19 million barrels of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico from the company's blown-out well in 2010. The ...
BP U.S. Oil Spill Fine Could Reach $18 Billion
The government wants BP Plc to pay $16 billion to $18 billion in water-pollution fines for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history while seeking more than $1 billion from the co-owner of the ...
Many Injured BP Oil Spill Workers Must Sue Again to Get Paid
BP Plc, having pledged billions of dollars for damages caused by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, won't have to make payouts any time soon to more than 95 percent of the workers hurt while cleaning ...
BP Argues Missing Comma Entitles it to $750M in Coverage For Gulf Oil Spill
BP Plc, which has paid more than $28 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, asked a Texas court to let it tap into $750 million in Transocean Ltd.'s insurance policies on the doomed Deepwater ...
High-Risk Industries Face More Liability Issues in Wake of BP Ruling
A U.S. court ruling that dramatically ramped up BP Plc's potential penalties for the 2010 Gulf oil spill could create new liability risks not just for deep water drillers but also for other ...BP Risks $18B Fine in Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill After Judge Assigns Blame
A U.S. judge has decided that BP Plc was "grossly negligent" and "reckless" in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill four years ago, a ruling that could add nearly $18 billion in fines to more than $42 ...