The lead investigator for the presidential panel’s investigation of April’s Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster that killed 11 workers refuted previous reports that the rig’s majority owner BP Plc and contractor Halliburton Co…
Seven companies involved in the oil and gas industries will pay the U.S. government a total of $236.5 million to settle corruption charges. An investigation by the SEC and the Justice Department alleges that the companies bribe…
BP (BP) will sell four deep-water oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico for $650 million.
The company will sell the fields to Marubeni Oil and Gas, a unit of Japan’s Marubeni Corp., The Wall Street Journal said. The deal could be completed by early 2011.
The oil giant’s net production from these fields is about 15,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day. The fields “did not fit well…
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The role of BP lawyers in the company’s report on the explosion in the Gulf of Mexico is casting doubts on the impartiality of the study.
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BP (BP) will join an oil spill response group formed by fellow oil giants Exxon Mobil (XOM), ConocoPhillips (COP), Chevron (CVX) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A).
BP will make its underwater well containment equipment and personnel available to the group, called the Marine Well Containment Co., The Washington Post said.
The other four oil companies said they would spend $1 billion on…
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BP Will Join Other Oil Giants in Spill Response Group originally appeared on DailyFinance on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:49:00.
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