Us Oil Spill

• US oil spill: judge clears BP's $7.8 billion settlement

  British oil giant BP won US court approval Friday of a $7.8 billion settlement with people and businesses who lost money and property due to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

• BP seeks to resume drilling in Gulf of Mexico

  BP has asked United States regulators for permission to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, two company officials said on Sunday, creating a delicate situation for the Obama administration as it seeks to balance safety concerns with a desire to increase domestic oil production. The petition comes less than 12 months after a rig BP had leased the...

• Under fire over oil spill, BP boss Tony Hayward likely to quit

  BP's Tony Hayward, whose gaffes added insult to oil-spill injury for the Gulf Coast, is on his way out as CEO, a US government official said Sunday. Many residents found small comfort in that as BP's biggest mistake under Hayward continued to foul their waters, their beaches and their way of life.A change in leadership will not change the mammoth t...

• US oil spill: BP admits photographs doctored

  BP acknowledges it posted on its website an altered photo that exaggerates the activity at its Gulf oil spill command center in Houston.The picture posted over the weekend showed workers monitoring a bank of 10 giant video screens displaying underwater images.Spokesman Scott Dean said Tuesday that two screens were blank in the original picture and ...

• Exact size of Gulf oil leak unknown: BP Chairman

  BP's Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said in an interview broadcast on Thursday that the exact size of the oil leak from the company's well in the Gulf of Mexico is unknown.In an exclusive interview with Swedish Television, Svanberg said estimates were hard to determine exactly."What we have are these videos, and we have satellite pictures to look at...

• US oil spill: BP to pay $20 billion in damages

  President Barack Obama says BP has agreed to set aside US$20 billion to pay victims of its Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout that has created the worst environmental calamity in American history.BP's chairman apologized for the spreading catastrophe, and said he was suspending the company's quarterly dividend as part of its commitment to the claims p...

• Oil spill: The numbers get worse with each look

  New figures for the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico show the amount of oil spewing may have been up to twice as much as previously thought, according to scientists consulting with the federal government.That could mean nearly 160 million liters to more than 378 million liters of oil have already fouled the Gulf's fragile waters, ...

• Up to 40,000-plus barrels per day pouring into Gulf: US

  As much as 40,000-plus barrels of oil per day are pouring from BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, a US official has said, more than doubling the previous government estimate."The lowest estimate that we're seeing that the scientists think is credible is probably about 20,000 barrels, and the highest that we're seeing is probably a little ove...

• Mock BP account on Twitter asked to declare intentions

  With corporate imbroglios now come online parodies - sometimes very popular ones.

• No immediate solution to oil spill in the Gulf: Obama

  It would take several months to bring the environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico under control, US President Barack Obama acknowledged on Monday following a special cabinet meeting on the crisis."Even if we are successful in containing some or much of this oil, we are not going to get this problem completely solved until we actu...

• Oil Spill: BP mocked by satirical feed on Twitter

  On Thursday morning, BP tried to communicate with its nearly 12,000 followers on Twitter that something promising may have happened in the Gulf of Mexico, where its oil  well has been gushing out of control for more than a month: "Admiral Allen shares the 'good news' of the successful LMRP riser cutting and outlines the next steps on @CNN." No...

• Gulf oil spill's threat to wildlife turns real

  The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality.Pelicans struggle to free themselves from oil, thick as tar, that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crude. Dead birds and dolphins wash ashore, coated in the sludge. Seashells th...

• Obama vows help as BP sees oil spill progress

  US President Barack Obama promised on Saturday to use 'every resource' to help those affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, as Americans awaited news of BP's latest containment effort.In his weekly radio address, broadcast from Grand Isle, Louisiana, a community bearing the brunt of the spill, Obama pledged ongoing attention to the disaster."So ...

• US launches criminal probe into oil spill

  The United States has launched a criminal investigation into the massive oil spill gushing out of a BP-leased rig in the Gulf of Mexico, US Attorney General Eric Holder has said."We will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who has violated the law," Holder told reporters in New Orleans. "We will not rest until justice is done."Holder ...

• US oil spill: 'Top Kill' unsuccessful, BP looking for other options

  BP has admitted that its attempt to plug the leak caused by the explosion of its Deepwater Horizon rig, the worst oil spill in US history, has failed and it is now considering other methods.British Petroleum made a third attempt Friday night at what is termed the 'junk shot,' a procedure that involves pumping odds and ends like plastic cubes, knott...