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HOUSTON, TX – On PBS Newshour, Hari Sreenivasan conducts an interview with Chris Choy, his wife, Monica and his attorney, maritime lawyer Steve Gordon.

Maritime lawyer Steve Gordon on PBS Newshour interview with Hari Sreenivasan

One Year Later after the explosion, fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon, oil rig worker, Chris Choy has had no income and his case is stalled in Federal Court. ... Read Full Story

Transocean Coast Guard Report

Maritime attorneys, Gordon, Elias & Seely, on behalf of Party-In-Interest (PII) Douglas Brown, have continually attempted throughout the entire Joint Investigation Task Force (JIT) hearings to prove that the Deepwater Horizon was misclassified by the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), the flag state.

RMI had every opportunity to volunteer the information the first week of hearings held by the JIT which included testimony from the RMI. RMI failed to do so and this failure was intentional. Only after repeated written requests from PII Brown did RMI publicly admit its misclassification. Even though it reluctantly admitted this misclassification on the Deepwater Horizon, it successfully fought revealing whether this misclassification had occurred fleet wide for Transocean’s MODUs – DPV.

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NEW ORLEANS, LA – On April 20, 2011, one year after the explosion, fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and subsequent oil spill, BP (British Petroleum) is suing Transocean Ltd, the owner of the oil rig involved in the disaster.

The top of the blowout preventer (BOP), made by Cameron International, breaking the surface as it was being recovered from the ocean floor.

In a separate lawsuit, BP is also suing Cameron International, the maker of the Blowout Preventer (BOP) that failed, citing that the device failed to stop the huge oil spill that followed the explosion. ... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON, DC – In Washington, D.C. officials are conducting an investigation into the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion and subsequent sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

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Three workers for Transocean, Ltd., the company that owned The Deepwater Horizon, are refusing to testify at hearings which are part of a joint investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Coast Guard. ... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON — In a 28 page report, written by the National Academy of Engineering and released late Tuesday night, a group of technical experts were critical of BP and concluded that BP and its contractors missed and ignored warning signs before the Deepwater Horizon explosion occurred in the Gulf of Mexico.

A group of technical experts concluded that BP and its contractors missed and ignored warning signs before the massive oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, showing an “insufficient consideration of risk” and raising questions about the know-how of key personnel.  ... Read Full Story

WASHINGTON, DC — According to a commission appointed by the president to investigate the Gulf oil spill disaster, the Obama administration blocked efforts by government scientists to tell the public just how bad the Gulf oil spill could become and raised questions about its competence and candor during the crisis.

Capt. Hung Nguyen speaks during the Deepwater Horizon joint investigation hearings. Photo credit: Brett Duke / The Times-Picayune

In documents released Wednesday, the national oil spill commission’s staff describes “not an incidental public relations problem” by the White House in the wake of the April 20 accident. Among other things, the report says, the administration made erroneous early estimates of the spill’s size, and President Barack Obama’s senior energy adviser went on national TV and mischaracterized a government analysis by saying it showed most of the oil was “gone.” The analysis actually said it could still be there. ... Read Full Story

On the last day of the fourth week of the Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Task Force hearings, Mr. Brett Cocales, a BP Operations Drilling Engineer that was in the line of authority on the Macondo well, revealed that Sperry sends real-time data from all of BP’s Gulf of Mexico projects to the BP home office Operations Center in Houston, Texas. However, there is a problem…no one monitors it.

BP drilling engineeraAttorney Philip Hilder (L) covers the microphone to consult with his client BP drilling engineer Brett Cocales (R) during the Deepwater Horizon hearings being conducted by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) in Houston August 27, 2010. REUTERS/Pat Sullivan/Pool (UNITED STATES)

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