British Petroleum Oil Spill

Oil Spill Still Weighing On BP

Reuters | Posted 05.02.2012

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* Q1 replacement cost net ex one-offs $4.80 bln vs f'cast $5.10 bln * To sell 50,000 bbls/day output in Gulf of Mexico ...

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BP Benefits From Settlement Already

Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012

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* BP reaches $7.8 bln deal with individuals, businesses * Shares up 1.6 pct * Analysts forecast rise above 5 percent ...

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BP Accuses Halliburton Of Destroying Damaging Oil Spill Evidence

AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 02.05.2012

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NEW ORLEANS — BP in a high-stakes court filing on Monday accused Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slu...

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Arctic Drilling: Lessons Learned From the Deepwater Horizon Spill

Marilyn Heiman | Posted 06.20.2011

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Government must ensure strong prevention, containment and response measures that are on site and ready to go given the Arctic's remote and extreme conditions.

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BP Stock Back Up Despite Talk Of Suspending Dividend

AP | By ROBERT BARR | Posted 05.25.2011

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Feds Let BP Avoid Filing Blowout Plan For Gulf Oil Rig

AP | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and RICHARD T. PIENCIAK | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — Petrochemical giant BP didn't file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater H...

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BP Could Face Billions In Oil-Spill Costs

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — The oil spill spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has drained $32 billion from BP's stock market value. Lawsuits, fines, cleanup and repu...

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BP Offers Gas Stations At Least $50 Million To Compensate For Loss

AP | HARRY R. WEBER | Posted 05.25.2011

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HOUSTON — Gas could become cheaper at some BP pumps after the oil company agreed to measures meant to help distributors and station owners offse...

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Court's Decision to Overturn the Drilling Moratorium Was Just Plain Wrong

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

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I hope the Obama administration's appeal on the Court's overturned drilling moratorium is in front of a judge without ties to the oil industry who understands how to interpret the law accurately and fairly.

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Conservative Superheroes: The New Dynamic Duo

Scott Janssen | Posted 05.25.2011

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What issues will be important to the new Republican brand? Though the jury may still be out on that question, the Party is at least providing hints as to what direction they're leaning.

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Whose Bank to Kick: A Tale of Two Tragedies

Ray Brescia | Posted 05.25.2011

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The tragedy in the Gulf will devastate communities, and its impact will touch every American. The financial crisis is no different. Yet we have taken two very different approaches to these disasters.

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The Shrimp Has Hit the Fan

Douglas Forbes | Posted 05.25.2011

Lots of folks are dissecting Obama's Oval Office speech and delivering diatribes on what's right and wrong with him and the oil world. So I figured I might as well join the fracas since it's the thing to do.

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Ancient Oceans

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

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A prayer for forgiveness, a vow to buy locally, bike more and live with greater eco-awareness goes only halfway into the problem. As long as BP chooses not to pray for forgiveness as well, little will change.

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New Decade Defined by New Crisis

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama recommends establishing an escrow account for BP's assets in order to guarantee the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill cleanup is financed properly. America is listening. Will BP?

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Obama's "Fireside Chat" (FDR or Jimmy Carter?)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's talk tonight was dominated by a technocratic laundry list of actions he plans to take. We've heard it all before. Obama should have made it clear tonight that the coddling of BP is over.

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Matt Osborne | Posted 05.25.2011

One blowing oil well is more real and compelling than all of the lies and noise the right has generated in the last 17 months put together.

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Oil Spill Media Access: BP Officials Continue To Block Reporters (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite the fact that National Incident Commander Thad Allen and BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles have publicly stipulated that the media is to...

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America's Reporters Touch Some Oil: The Mediagasm

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anytime there is some massive, unfolding disaster in the world, you can usually count on America's reporters getting dressed down and venturing forth ...

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ABC Reporter Hassled By BP: Days After Thad Allen Directed Open Access, Media Clampdown Continues

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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While reporters in the Gulf of Mexico may want to do more to protect themselves from the risks involved in touching and swimming around in the oil, the larger battle they are fighting as they cover the oil spill crisis is one of access.

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Chamber Of Commerce Says Taxpayers Should Help Pay For BP Spill Cleanup; GOP Leader Agrees, Then Recants

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce typically doesn't put itself out there as a big fan of socialism. But that all changes when we're talking about risk and liability. In those cases, they love socialism to death!

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BP's Prophetic 1999 Advertisement [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: Hi, I am hilariously wrong, the ad is a fake! Enthusiasm outpaced the better angels of discernment. Everyone should go back to having an infin...

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'Obama's Katrina?' Offensive and Outlandish

Morris W. O'Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Obama's Katrina?" Stop the madness. Stop making the comparison and stop allowing such intellectually dishonest drivel to go forth unchecked.

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Obama's Oil Spill Emotions: The Mediagasm (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you've spent any time at all watching the heroes of cable news grapple with the ongoing oil spill crisis, it should be pretty clear that what they ...

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Industries Profiting From The BP Spill

The Big Money | Caitlin McDevitt | Posted 05.25.2011

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The old saying "Where there's muck, there's brass" is especially true these days. The massive mess from the BP (BP) oil spill has turned into an oppor...

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This Day In Deepwater Horizon Spill Rate Estimates

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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We have now entered the post-robot shears and preliminary containment cap era, so let's get the latest from Admiral Thad Allen, who was questioned on the matter by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.

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