Trail date is postponed as BP and PSC negotiate how to compensate those impacted by the Deepwater Horizon spill. BP and the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (PSC) confirmed that the U.S. District Court has adjourned the start of the Deepwater Horizon Multi-District Litigation 2179 civil trial by one week, until Monday, March 5. This adjournment is…
Oil Rig Blast Reported In The Gulf
An offshore petroleum platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded today, Sept. 2, and was reported as burning by a commercial helicopter flying overhead, the Associated Press reported. The rig sits about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in April killing 11 workers and leaking…
BP Selling Upstream U.S. Assets To Apache
BP is selling its upstream assets in the U.S., Canada and Egypt to Apache Corp., outlined in a number of agreements this week. The deals together total $7 billion, and comprise BP’s Permian Basin assets in Texas and south-east New Mexico in the U.S.; its Western Canadian upstream gas assets; and the Western Desert business…
Chevron Cited After Spill
Utah regulators have cited Chevron Corp. for a pipeline leak that sent 33, 000 gallons of crude oil into Salt Lake City’s Red Butte Creek last month, the Associated Press reported. Much of the oil collected in a pond at the city’s Liberty Park and, according to regulators, oil traveled downstream into the Jordan River.…
BP Releases Video of Spill
BP increased the estimated cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill to $450 million Thursday, after it released a video showing oil and gas pouring from its well a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, MarketWatch reported. BP released the video to the public late Wednesday, more than three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon drilling…
BP Releases Video of Spill
BP increased the estimated cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill to $450 million Thursday, after it released a video showing oil and gas pouring from its well a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, MarketWatch reported. BP released the video to the public late Wednesday, more than three weeks after the Deepwater Horizon drilling…