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 ...

This week marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill, which shocked the US public with images of oil-covered Alaskan ...

In the sea of fines, fees and compensation BP has paid to individuals, businesses, governments and lawyers for its 2010 oil spill, one group of claimants stands out for missing out on the billions.

Over a decade on from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, could we do a ... a blowout caused a huge explosion on the offshore drilling rig operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people were ...

A 30-year veteran of oil spill wars, Ploen ... A week before the explosion, a BP drilling engineer wrote, "This has been [a] nightmare well." By April 20 the Deepwater Horizon was six weeks ...

Fourteen years ago, the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon ... The Gulf of Mexico explosion took the lives of 11 people, released 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf over 87 straight ...

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 ...

The explosion triggered a massive spill of crude oil, which flowed into the Gulf for 87 days before it was capped. An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil were discharged into the ocean ...

On April 20, 2010, a blowout caused a huge explosion on the offshore drilling ... An estimated 5% of the BP oil spill was burnt off the surface. Burning requires concentrating the oil on the ...