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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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Ten oil workers employed by Houston-based Geokinetics Inc who called for help on Thursday morning on Sept 8 after abandoning a vessel known as Trinity II, are still missing in Mexico. As of Saturday afternoon, Sept 10, rescue efforts had found no sign of the 10 missing workers according to authorities.

According to upstreamonline.com: Mexican state oil company Pemex found the partially submerged 94-foot, 185-ton Trinity II liftboat in the Bay of Campeche, but there were no signs of the lifeboat holding ten offshore workers and crew members, according to media reports in Mexico.

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HARRIS COUNTY, TX – Halliburton has filed a lawsuit against BP PLC Friday, Sept 2, in the Texas state court claiming negligent misrepresentation, business disparagement and defamation related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster that caused the Gulf of Mexico oil spill last year.

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NEW ORLEANS, La. – U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier in a major 39-page ruling dismissed all state law claims, but instead adopted an expansive view of economic damage that could result from the oil spill and said that some plaintiffs may be able to collect punitive damages from the companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

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NEW ORLEANS, La – Lawyers for victims of the April 20, 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill say that BP is using “coercive tactics” to force the victims to agree to final settlements with its claims fund.

Attorneys representing property owners, businesses and others claiming harm say victims have been forced to sign releases for inadequate payments because they could no longer afford to wait for full compensation. ... Read Full Story