22.06.2010
- BP's relief well to kill its blown-out Macondo well is ahead of schedule, but is still expected to be complete during the second week of August, the top U.S. oil spill official...
21.06.2010
- An internal BP document released on Sunday by a senior U.S. congressional Democrat shows that the company estimates that a worst-case scenario rate for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill...
17.06.2010
- The moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has begun to bite oilfield service companies, with market analysts now forecasting lower than expected spending on new...
17.06.2010
- BP said it started a second system to siphon oil from its Gulf of Mexico leak on Wednesday, a day after the U.S. government massively raised its estimate of the flow rate from the...
16.06.2010
- With the U.S. government doubling its estimate of oil coming out of the broken well on the sea floor of the Gulf of Mexico, companies linked to the spill, including BP, face...
15.06.2010
- U.S. lawmakers accused BP on Monday of taking risky and repeated shortcuts on its blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well, while President Barack Obama pressed the energy giant to...
07.06.2010
- BP faces another difficult week of tough questions from investors and U.S. lawmakers despite making progress in capturing an increasing amount of oil spewing from a ruptured Gulf...
02.06.2010
- BP started sawing extraneous pipes on Tuesday at the seabed site of its latest attempt to corral oil leaking from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico. Moving past its failed "top...