Keyword: Gulf of Mexico

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BP Ready To Switch Caps On Gulf Leak

09.07.2010 - BP is ready to switch caps at the wellhead of the gushing Gulf of Mexico leak as part of an effort to capture more of the oil, the top official overseeing the spill response said...

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BP Shares Rise as Company Says No Plan to Issue Stock

07.07.2010 - BP ruled out a share issue and talk persisted of sovereign wealth fund interest in the British oil major, boosting its shares on Tuesday even as its Gulf of Mexico oil slick spread...

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U.S. Sees New Drilling Moratorium in Next Few Days

02.07.2010 - The Obama administration expects to announce a revised deep-water offshore oil drilling moratorium in the next few days, the White House said on Thursday. The U.S. government has...

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Spill Relief Well Weeks Away, Hurricane Hinders Cleanup

01.07.2010 - A relief well that might divert the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil leak is still weeks from completion, a top U.S. official said on Wednesday, as the season's first Atlantic hurricane...

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BP Relief Well Ahead of Schedule

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...

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Document Shows BP Estimates Spill up to 100,000 bpd

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...

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Gulf Drilling Halt Starts To Sting Companies

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...

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BP Starts Second Oil Collection System In Gulf

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...