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According to former members of the National Commission on the 2010 Gulf of Mexico BP Oil Spill, offshore drilling safety has improved, but congressional gridlock still poses a threat. Congressional failure to adopt budgets and offset automatic ...

* Claims, payout rate may point to charge against profit * Accountancy professors represented by top lawyer * Appeal hearing set for July 8 By Andrew Callus LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) - A group of U.S. accountancy professors is backing BP's fight to ...

STRASBOURG, France, May 22 (UPI) -- The European Commission began reviewing offshore oil and natural gas safety issues following the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010. A BP-leased oil rig caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the ...

A former BP Plc (BP/) engineer charged in the first criminal case arising from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill will ask a judge today to sanction U.S. prosecutors for withholding evidence that he says might clear him. The U.S. charged Kurt Mix, ...

BP has asked the Government to help it battle a wave of "fictitious" claims for billions in compensation over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The oil giant says lawyers are encouraging Gulf Coast businesses to make spurious claims just to earn a ...

Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed into law a bill that will require oil and gas companies to file reports within 24 hours whenever more than one 42-gallon barrel of oil is spilled outside of berms or secondary containment areas. The new law, ...

Stan Dempsey, an oil and gas lobbyist, raced from one committee hearing to another in Colorado's statehouse this spring, defending the industry against an onslaught of bills. While only one of 10 measures passed, the flurry of activity is one of ...

The European Union tightened safety rules for offshore oil and natural-gas exploration to curb the risk of a major accident after BP Plc's (BP/) 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest in U.S. history. The European Parliament approved ...

A nice oil rig, yesterday The latest marine oil spill surveillance operation carried out by Finland, Sweden and Estonia, did not detect any oils spills in the Northern Baltic Sea area, consistent with an observed trend of decreasing instances of oil ...