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February 2nd, 2012 | 
Author: NEW ORLEANS, LA – On Tuesday, January 31, 2012, a Federal Judge made a ruling in the civil case involving BP, Plc and Halliburton, the company that provided the cement that was supposed to seal off the Macondo well head in the Gulf Oil Spill disaster in April, 2010.
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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.
WASHINGTON – According to the Obama Administration, BP and two other companies may face more citations for alleged safety and environmental violations stemming from last year’s Gulf oil spill.
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NEW ORLEANS, La. – U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled last week that BP must face claims under general maritime law, not under state law, in suits brought by Louisiana and Alabama due to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill brought on by the Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010.
NEW ORLEANS, La. – U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled Tuesday, Nov 15, that BP can not use Transocean’s insurance coverage to pay costs that were related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that occurred last April in 2010 – stating that the carriers owe no duty to pay claims or defense costs to BP.
HOUSTON, TX – On June 22, 2011 Houston-based Transocean Ltd issued a final report on the events of April 2010 involving the explosion, fire and sinking of the oil drilling platform, the Deepwater Horizon, at the infamous Macondo well site in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Deepwater Horizon was owned by Transocean and was leased and operated by British Petroleum, Plc (BP). As a result of the tragic events that occurred, 11 men lost their lives, leaving their surviving families and relatives to cope with their loss and causing environmental damage to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the businesses and local economies of the coastal states. ... Read Full Story
Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded last year on April 20, 2010 killing 11 oil rig workers and spread millions of gallons of oil across gulf waters and beaches, has issued an extensive report Wednesday that points most of the blame at BP, the owner of the Macondo well.
In the Transocean 854 page report released on Wednesday, Transocean said the Deepwater Horizon explosion that occurred on April 20, 2010 and resulting oil spill was the result of a “succession of interrelated well design, construction, and temporary abandonment decisions that compromised the integrity of the well and compounded the risk of its failure.” Transocean said many of the decisions were made by well owner BP in the two weeks before the incident. ... Read Full Story
HOUSTON, TX – A high ranking Transocean oil rig worker, who was on the Deepwater Horizon when it explode on April 20, 2010, has refused to testify in civil lawsuits over the disaster.
Jimmy Harrell, the rig’s offshore installation manager, was in charge of drilling activities on the Deepwater Horizon, when it exploded while drilling the BP Macondo well 50 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. ... Read Full Story
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With just a little over one year since the tragic Deepwater Horizon disaster that claimed the lives of 11 oil rig workers, Doug Brown, one of the 10 most injured survivors of the blast, has become an advocate for improvements in offshore safety.
Matthew Jacobs, Douglas Brown and Daniel Barron one year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Brown has been living with the first-hand memories of that deadly night and for the past year he has brought his message and fight to Congress and via the mainstream media. ... Read Full Story
HOUSTON, TX – Survivors of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 have a message for the companies involved: start taking some responsibility and stop with the finger pointing. People’s lives are at stake.
Left to right: Matthew Jacobs, Douglas Brown and Daniel Barron for the Anderson Cooper 360 interview one year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
This is the message from a recent interview on Anderson Cooper 360 with 3 of the survivors of the disaster. ... Read Full Story
