Latest Deepwater Horizon Stories

Oil giant BP said Sunday it is making good progress in its effort to fully contain the Gulf oil leak by fitting a tighter cap on the well, which is now gushing largely unimpeded.The operation to replace the old cap has reached a critical juncture as engineers scramble to capitalize on a stretch of good weather.   The round-the-clock operation began on Saturday, when the old cap was removed from a fractured pipe on the sea floor by robotic submarines.  It is expected to take between...

WASHINGTON, July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The national commission investigating the cause of the Gulf Coast disaster has announced it will conduct its first public meeting July 12 and 13 in New Orleans to gain insights from both experts and the public on the cause and effects of the disaster. The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon and Offshore Drilling will hear directly from the people of the Gulf Coast whose lives and livelihoods have been affected by the BP Deepwater...

Represented by Motley Rice Law Firm MT. PLEASANT, S.C., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Charging BP and other defendants with harming his health and causing serious personal injuries, a Mobile resident and recreational fisherman has filed suit against 16 companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. On May 29, 2010, Obie F. Carlisle was fishing for flounder in Mobile Bay, near Fairhope and Bayou La Batra, Ala. For three or four hours, he waded in the bay to engage in "flounder...

More obstacles have stepped into BP's oil spill fight as tar balls have been found along Texas beaches.Tar balls found in the surf on Galveston Island in Texas were tested and determined to be from the BP spill. However, officials stressed in a statement that it was not clear if they drifted hundreds of miles from the site of the well, or if they fell or leaked from a ship carrying collected oil to Texas for processing. About 492 miles of U.S. shoreline across the five Gulf states have been...

The possible spread of the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon rig over the course of one year was studied in a series of computer simulations by a team of researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.Eight million buoyant particles were released continuously from April 20 to September 17, 2010, at the location of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The release occurred in ocean flow data from simulations conducted with the...

BP has spent in excess of $3 billion on the Gulf oil spill as of Monday, the company said. The costs include efforts to contain and cleanup the oil, the drilling of relief wells that many believe will ultimately stop the leak, and $147 million in compensation to some of those affected by the spill."The cost of the response to date amounts to approximately $3.12 billion, including the cost of the spill response, containment, relief well drilling, grants to the Gulf states, claims paid,...

WASHINGTON, July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement following passage of H.R. 5503, the SPILL Act ("Securing Protections for the Injured from Limitations on Liability Act"), a bill to ensure just compensation for maritime disaster victims. The legislation passed the House this afternoon by a voice vote. "The family members of the 11 people who were killed on the Deepwater Horizon have taken their pain and turned it into advocacy - in the...

RADNOR, Pa., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement was issued today by the law firm of Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP: Notice is hereby given that a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on behalf of all investors who purchased or otherwise acquired American Depository Shares ("ADS") of BP, plc ("BP" or the "Company") between June 30, 2005 and June 1, 2010, inclusive (the "Class Period") (NYSE:...

NEW ORLEANS, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- It has been two months since the explosion and subsequent sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caused massive amounts of crude oil to begin leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, and in that time, industry across the Gulf Coast has been affected, from the commercial fishing industry to tourism to food distribution. As a region known for its cuisine, the Gulf Coast restaurant industry - particularly the seafood industry - has been the focus of international...

A federal judge blocked President Barack Obama's plan to block drilling in the Gulf of Mexico for six months on Tuesday. The White House said that it would appeal immediately.  Obama's administration had halted approval of any new permits for deepwater drilling and suspended drilling of 33 exploratory wells in the Gulf. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama believes strongly that drilling at such depths does not make any sense and puts the safety of workers "at a danger that the...