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 ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 caused extensive environmental and economic damage, emphasizing the need for better ...

Here’s a look at oil spill disasters. Spill estimates vary by source. Ten Largest Oil Spills 1. January 1991 – During the Gulf War, Iraqi forces intentionally release 252-336 million gallons of oil ...

As far as British oil giant BP is concerned, the catastrophic oil spill that tainted Louisiana’s shores more than a decade ago didn’t take place in the Gulf of Mexico. It took place in the ...

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 ...

Fatal explosion probe continues The oil spill at Braeburn Alloy Steel came two weeks after a fatal explosion there. On Jan. 22, a 20-year-old Tarentum man died and two other workers were hurt ...

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It was meant to be the moment when one of Britain’s most powerful companies broke decisively with its fossil fuel past. Addressing journalists and executives at the Royal Lancaster Hotel ...

2010: The Gulf Spill BP’s long decline was precipitated by the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in 2010, which killed 11 people and triggered the worst offshore oil spill in ...

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 ...