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V.A. FOGG

Yesterday, February 1st, 2012, marked the 40th anniversary of the explosion and sinking of the cargo vessel V.A. Fogg in Gulf of Mexico, resulting in the death of all 39 crew members onboard. ... Read Full Story

NEW ORLEANS, La. — BP made their latest filing on Monday, Jan 2, in New Orleans federal court reiterating a claim they first made last April that they are entitled to payment from Houston-based contractor Halliburton Energy Services for expenses and lost profits resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill disaster.

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NEW ORLEANS, La – Researchers want cleanup workers and volunteers of last year’s BP oil spill to participate in a Gulf study that is looking at the long-term health effects of last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill on clean-up workers.

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HOUSTON, TX — BP has agreed to pay the state of Texas $50 million over air pollution violations at the site of a massive explosion in 2005 that killed 15 people. The settlement, which was announced Thursday, Nov 3, does not resolve lawsuits or investigations by other agencies, or any future problems at the refinery says Matthew Tejada, executive director of the Houston Air Alliance.

Texas City, Texas oil refinery Aerial view of BP's Texas City refinery after an explosion in 2005. Photo Credit: U.S. Chemial Safety Board

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Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of BP’s $20 billion restitution fund, told Congress on Thursday, Oct 27, that he has has paid out approximately $5.5 billion to more than 213,000 victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that occurred over a year and a half ago.

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HOUSTON, TX — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation team adopted the final report last Tuesday on the Jan. 23, 2010 collision in Port Arthur of the tanker Eagle Otome and towboat Dixie Vengeance that led to the largest Texas oil spill in more than two decades, according to federal transportation investigators.

A pair of barges which were being pushed by the towing vessel Dixie Vengeance sit lodged against the Eagle Otome, an 807-foot tanker, Saturday January 23, 2010 in the Sabine Neches Waterway next to the docks of the Port of Port Arthur. At about 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning, the Eagle Otome, carrying 570,000 barrels of crude oil, collided with the outbound barge, tearing open one of the Eagle Otome's cargo tanks. According to the Coast Guard up to 450,000 gallons of oil spilled into the waterway. U.S. Coast Guard Photo / Beaumont Enterprises

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WASHINGTON – The U.S. House has not yet reached an agreement on a bill to allocate oil spill fines to those areas affected by the Deepwater Horizon disaster of April, 10, 2010.

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A bill has moved on to the full Senate for final consideration that would send 80 percent of oil spill fine money to Gulf Coast states.

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NEW ORLEANS, La. – The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) investigating the Deepwater Horizon disaster has issued its final report on the incident and has made it public on Sept 14, 2011. The JIT is composed of the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE)

Deepwater Horizon Final Report: Joint Investigation Team USCG and BOEMRE

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According to a statement from Mexico’s state oil company, Pemex, 7 of the missing oil workers were found alive on Sunday Sept 11, but one of the survivors, Kham Nadimuzzaman of Bangladesh, later died Sunday evening in the hospital after being rescued from three days at sea adrift in the Gulf of Mexico.

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