BP Oil Spill

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Attorneys for a former BP engineer convicted of trying to obstruct a federal probe of the company's 2010 Gulf oil spill have asked for more time to file requests for a new trial or a post-verdict acquittal. ...

About an hour into continued deliberations Tuesday, they asked the judge to quit for the night and conintue today.

Federal prosecutors say Kurt Mix was destroying evidence after he deleted hundreds of text messages between him, a supervisor and a contractor for British Petroleum.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won't decide if the Obama administration violated a judge's order that struck down its temporary moratorium on deep water drilling after BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The 16 Florida projects marked with an asterisk have been added since a preliminary announcement last spring.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An attorney who was fired by the court-supervised administrator of BP's settlement with Gulf Coast businesses and residents is suing her former employer and the London-based oil giant.

U.S District Judge Carl Barbier did not say when he will rule.

The company maintains its spill preparations complied with every government requirement and met industry standards.

U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval has yet to rule on an earlier motion to dismiss the seaman's manslaughter charges.

A researcher at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi says the BP oil spill did at least moderate damage to the tiny animals that live on the sea floor for about 57 square miles around the Macondo well, with severe damage covering about nine square miles.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Halliburton Energy Services and Justice Department prosecutors have urged a federal judge to approve a plea deal that calls for the Houston-based company to pay a $200,000 fine for destroying evidence after BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Former FBI director recommends investigation into possible BP settlement corruption.

A court-supervised claims administrator has made more than $4.5 billion in settlement offers to more than 55,000 Gulf Coast businesses and residents who claim the spill cost them money.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP is trying to persuade a federal appeals court that it should throw out a judge's approval of the company's multibillion-dollar settlement related to the Gulf oil spill if a separate appeal is unsuccessful. Last year, BP joined plaintiffs' attorneys in urging U...

Last week, another judge gave approval to Transocean's criminal settlement of 400 million dollars in criminal penalties.

BP has plead guilty to manslaughter and other charges in the disaster that resulted in the deaths of eleven men in the Gulf of Mexico over two-and-a-half years ago.

The Justice Department has reached a $1.4 billion settlement with Transocean Ltd., the owner of the drilling rig that sank after an explosion killed 11 workers and spawned the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Attorneys want the trial delayed until much later in 2013.

An attorney says the deal will likely still go forward.

Government lawyers with the U.S. Justice Department say they still have ways to prove BP of gross negligence.