Oil Spill News

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.

Scott on Friday signed a bill that creates a tax break for the state's manufacturers.

Texas has joined the crowd of Gulf of Mexico states to file suit against BP Plc, Halliburton Co and others for their role in one of the worst oil spills in US history.

Representatives from the 23 Florida Gulf counties the federal Restore Act deemed affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill met Friday in Key Largo for their monthly session.

Transocean Ltd. shareholders have voted out the oil drilling company's chairman and backed one of Carl Icahn's director nominees.

China is a major trading partner of New Zealand but some critics believe media 'marginalised' coverage of last month's Dalian oil spillage crisis.

The Assumption Parish sinkhole is the focus of two pieces of legislation facing Louisiana lawmakers during the 2013 legislative session.

BP has asked the Government to help it battle a wave of 'fictitious' claims for billions in compensation over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

A federal judge has agreed to postpone the trial of a former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A woman has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for bilking Gulf Coast residents by posing as a federal safety official after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Texas on Friday became the fifth state to sue British oil company BP over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, seeking damages related to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

AUSTIN 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.

After the BP oil spill in 2010, the company created a $300 million fund to promote Louisiana tourism.

With the public increasingly worried about oil spills, aboriginal groups calling for an Arctic drilling moratorium, and the oil industry keen as ever to tap northern deposits, oil-spill response preparedness was a big topic of discussion at the Arctic Council meeting in Sweden this week.

UK major BP is increasingly worried about the possibility of a takeover bid from another oil company, as it struggles under the strain of mounting compensation costs in the aftermath of the Gulf of According to a BBC report , BP has complained it is suffering huge losses as rules for assessing "business economic loss" are systematically abused, ... (more)

When Terry Serigny was growing up in Leeville, Louisiana, in the 1950s, the Mississippi River delta town was also known as Orange City for its many citrus groves.

News that Top Chef received $200,000 from the oil spill fund the Deepwater Horizon disaster has prompted controversy and a debate of sorts between Bravo VP Andy Cohen, chef Anthony Bourdain, and TV auteur David Simon.

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They set aside more than $8 billion to compensate victims of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.

Miami television station NBC6 reports the driver of the 2011 Toyota Sienna stayed at the scene.