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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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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...

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How Would Penalties Apply To The Gulf Oil Spill?

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...

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BP Faces Another Tough Week Despite Well Progress

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...

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BP Lays Out New, Riskier Move To Cut Flow Of Oil

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...

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U.S. Has Launched Criminal Probe Into BP Spill

02.06.2010 - The U.S. government has launched a widely expected criminal and civil investigation into BP’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on...