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Byline: City Editor James Ashton BP is to sell its stake in a number of North Sea oil and gas fields to Abu Dhabi's national energy firm, TAQA, for $1.3 [...]

The Times-Picayune (New Orleans), editorial: 'BP is acknowledging responsibility for the lives lost when the rig exploded in April 2010. The company pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to felony [...]

BP has agreed to settle criminal charges stemming from its leading role in the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil spill of 2010, which cost 11 lives and wreaked environmental havoc. The [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- With BP's agreement on Thursday to plead guilty to 14 criminal charges and pay $4.5 billion in fines and other payments in connection with its 2010 oil [...]

Byline: Russell Lynch TROUBLED BP today revealed an extra $5 billion (£3.2 billion) in writedowns as profits slumped and the bill for the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill spiralled [...]

Byline: Deborah S Morris July 30--A 56-foot fishing boat that had been idling in Huntington Harbor for four years began taking on water July 5 and partially sank, leaking oil [...]

San Francisco TWO years after a series of gambles and ill-advised decisions on a BP drilling project led to the largest accidental oil spill in United States history and the [...]

BP held its annual meeting on Thursday, and, all things considered, the company's shareholders had much to be happy about. Yes, a small percentage voted against the $6.8 million pay [...]

Feb. 22--A subsidiary of Japanese oil company Mitsui agreed last Friday to pay $90 million for its liability in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Of that total, $70 [...]

BP has suffered a further blow in its bid to share the billions of dollars of costs arising from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. A US judge ruled it [...]

Byline: Gideon Spanier Jan. 27--BP shares slumped by 2 percent this morning as the oil giant suffered a setback in its bid to share the billions of dollars of costs [...]

Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which blew out in the Gulf of Mexico nearly two years ago, is not liable for some of the pollution claims arising [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez: U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Kirsten Gillibrand filed an amendment to the Keystone XL Pipeline bill to [...]

Jan 15, 2015 (TheFlyOnTheWall.com via COMTEX) -- 17:53 EDT BP may pay up to $13.7B in fines for Deepwater Horizon Gulf spill case, WSJ says - BP may have to [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Florida Rep. Lois Frankel: Congresswoman Lois Frankel (FL-22) issued the following statement after the House passed a bill to [...]

Byline: Rob Davies Dec. 17--The US firm that made a piece of equipment whose failure contributed to BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill has agree to pay the British firm [...]

Byline: Reuters BUSINESS TICKER / INTERNATIONAL / ENERGY Cameron International Corp. agreed a $250-million settlement with BP PLC to help pay for costs associated with the Gulf of Mexico oil [...]

BP will receive a $250m (£161m) payment from Cameron International, a contractor on the Macondo well, in settlement of their dispute over liability for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. [...]

Byline: Tom Bawden Dec. 16--BP will receive a $250 million (pounds sterling 161.3 million) payment from Cameron International, a contractor on the Macondo well, in settlement of their dispute over [...]

Byline: Tom Bawden BP WILL receive a $250 million (£161.3 million) payment from Cameron International, a contractor on the Macondo well, in settlement of their dispute over liability for the [...]

BP has agreed to sell its Canadian natural gas liquids business to Plains All American Pipeline for $1.67bn (£1.07bn), as it seeks to raise $45bn to strengthen its balance sheet […]

BP has suffered a legal setback after a US judge ruled it cannot use Transocean's insurance cover to help pay for the costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. […]

Rep. Jeff Landry (R-La.) sent a letter to BP on Thursday urging the company responsible for 2010 Gulf oil spill to pay 6,000 people and businesses with claims of economic [...]

Byline: Terry Macalister A key part of a BP fundraising programme to help pay compensation and liabilities connected to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has collapsed in a dispute [...]

Byline: John Bacon with staff and wire reports Two abortion clinic workers pleaded guilty Thursday to third-degree murder and related charges in two deaths at a Philadelphia clinic where newborns [...]

britain is abandoning its first line of defence against oil tanker pollution disasters, four ocean-going tugs stationed around the coastline to help vessels in distress. The four tugs, put in [...]

Byline: Harry R. Weber and Dina Cappiello, THE WASHINGTON TIMES A key federal report goes further than other investigations and puts ultimate responsibility on BP for the worst offshore oil [...]

Byline: Tom Egan The Department of Environmental Management could hold a landowner liable for petroleum contamination under the Oil Pollution Control Act regardless of whether the landowner was at fault, [...]

Oil company Shell could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars after accepting responsibility for two devastating oil spills in Nigeria's Ogoniland region. The agreement comes after the [...]

Byline: John Vidal Bodo, Nigeria Shell has accepted full liability for two massive oil spills that devastated the environment and local livelihoods in a region of the Niger delta, opening [...]

Byline: Joy Campbell July 13--Owensboro CPA Jeff Merimee's company, Famous Tallahassee LLC, has incurred a stack of liabilities since the BP oil spill upended his franchised Famous Dave's restaurant on [...]

Byline: Rob Davies May 21--The clouds hanging over BP have parted briefly, after one of the firms with a stake in its doomed Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico [...]

Byline: Lucy Tobin A STILL-RISING bill for the Gulf of Mexico disaster, lower production after selling off assets to help pay for it and a hit from the Budget's tax [...]

April 20--BP is pushing to resume deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, despite its responsibility for the worst oil spill in U.S. history. The Obama administration need not, and [...]

April 04--Contractors worked Monday to install a temporary cofferdam around the derelict barge Davy Crockett, which lies beached and broken on the north bank of the Columbia River between Vancouver [...]

There must be days when Kenneth Feinberg, who administered the 9/11 victims fund nearly a decade ago, asks himself why he ever volunteered to run the $20 billion compensation fund [...]