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.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge presiding over a proposed class-action settlement of BP oil spill claims says two websites can mislead visitors into believing they are filing official claims.
U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier on Thursday ordered the operator of the sites — bpclaims...
Lawyers for the owners of the drilling rig that exploded at the start of the BP spill are asking a judge to make a key witness talk to them before their trial. Attorneys for Transocean want to interview Donald Vidrine, who was BP's well site leader when the well blew April 20, 2010.
Transocean Limited, the company that owned the drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year, is arguing that its contract with BP shields it from having to pay for the largest offshore spill in the nation's history.
Federal regulators have cited oil company BP PLC and two other companies — Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton — for alleged safety and environmental violations stemming from last year's rig explosion and massive oil spill in the Gulf.
METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Maintenance on a safety device that failed to stop last year's BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the focus as a federal panel resumed hearings on the disaster in New Orleans.
WASHINGTON — People familiar with the investigation of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill say manslaughter and perjury are among the possible violations being explored by Justice Department investigators.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico is refusing to honor subpoenas from a federal board that has challenged the company's involvement in monitoring the testing of a key piece of equipment that failed to stop the oil spill disaster.
The co-chairman of a presidential commission on the Gulf oil spill says there is widespread belief that "breathtakingly inept" mistakes by BP, Haliburton and Transocean led to the disaster.