Articles Tagged With "oil spill"

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Chevron faces $18 billion in Texaco-related damages

BP’s $7.8 billion oil spill settlement is in the news. Less well known is that Chevron faces $18 billion in Texaco-related damages.

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BP accuses Halliburton of possible criminal activity

BP accuses Halliburton of destroying computer records about its cementing operations following the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster.

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Tests on sunken oil tanker off California coast bring relief

A state and federal task force find no oil in an oil tanker that sunk off the California coast in 1941. It was carrying 3 million tons of crude when it went down.

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Transocean reports poor results due to Deepwater Horizon hangover

The blowback from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster weighs heavily on Transocean’s financial performance in 2011.

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BP wins permission to drill in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico

BP gets government approval to resume drilling in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, some 18 months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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Anadarko and BP cut a deal over the 2010 Gulf oil spill

Anadarko and BP cut a deal over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill

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Federal pipeline safety regulation blocked by a single Senator

US Senator Rand Paul blocks common sense pipeline safety legislation that the vast majority of his peers and industry associations support, further exposing a broken political system.

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Federal report blames BP for 2010 Gulf oil disaster

A federal report lays most of the blame for last year’s Macondo well disaster in the Gulf of Mexico on rig operator BP.

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Is the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline a done deal?

TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline passes State Department environmental impact test.

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Shell’s big little oil spill in the North Sea.

Royal Dutch Shell has been struggling to contain a 1,300 barrel oil spill in the North Sea. Last week the company reported an oil leak from a flow line at the [...]