effectively ending litigation stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and subsequent oil spill. Former BP executive David Rainey was acquitted on charges of lying to congressional ...

Many experts say cleanup efforts for oil spills are "largely ineffective," especially when leaks occur in large bodies of ...

The natural gas explosion that killed 11 crew ... t be wiped out in the huge Ixtoc blowout, the oil disaster that most closely parallels the BP spill. Now, in their transplanted nesting ground ...

BP has been fined £7,000 over an oil spill during which 95 tonnes of crude oil was discharged off Shetland. Investigators found that a "process failure" led to the incident at the Clair Platform ...

Oil giant BP has agreed to pay $20bn to settle claims with the US stemming from the company's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. An explosion on BP's deep-water drill, off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 ...

The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. [Wikipedia] The US government ... also known as Deepwater Horizon oil spill, after the name of the BP drilling platform which exploded on 20 April ...

However, offshore oceanic impacts are less well understood. The BP oil spill is introducing oil and methane gas into the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Previous studies on deepwater drilling ...

More than six years on from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP has finally released a ‘reliable estimate’ of the final bill. Having recently taken steps to resolve all of the outstanding claims ...

State of Florida Governor Charlie Crist declared on Friday a state of emergency in coastal counties because of the threat from the oil spill in ... last week's explosion on a BP-operated rig ...

With one day left to… U.S., five states announce settlement with BP over gulf oil spill The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims ...