La. Companies Ask Judge To Lift Obama’s Drill Ban
Companies that ferry people and supplies to offshore oil rigs asked a federal judge Monday to lift a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects imposed in the aftermath of the massive Gulf spill. Read more on CBS4 Miami
La. companies ask judge to end drilling moratorium
Associated Press – June 21, 2010 2:15 PM ET NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Companies that ferry people and supplies to offshore oil rigs are asking a judge to overturn a six-month moratorium on deepwater… Read more on KSWO Lawton-Wichita Falls
Oil companies turn on BP
WASHINGTON – EXECUTIVES from other major oil companies turned on BP Plc and defended their own drilling practices during a US congressional hearing on Tuesday as they sought to stave off new government regulations in the wake of BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Summoned before the US House of Representatives subcommittee on energy and environment, executives of the biggest oil companies … Read more on Straits Times
Since the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded on April 20th, the Obama administration has granted oil and gas companies at least 27 exemptions from doing in-depth environmental studies of oil exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico.
Oil Falls as Energy Companies Lead S&P 500 Lower on BP Spill
June 1 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil dropped for a second day in New York as energy-company shares led the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index lower after BP Plc failed to halt the flow of oil from a leaking Gulf of Mexico well. Read more on Bloomberg
BP internal probe focuses on other companies’ work
Oil giant BP said its internal investigation of the unchecked Gulf oil spill is largely focused on work done by other companies as a new government report Tuesday showed workers at the federal agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted sports tickets, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies. Read more on San Diego Union-Tribune
Obama Scolds Oil Companies Over Gulf Spill
President Barack Obama on Friday angrily decried the “ridiculous spectacle” of oil industry officials pointing fingers of blame for the catastrophic spill in the Gulf of Mexico and pledged to end a “cozy relationship” between the oil industry and federal regulators that he said had extended into his own administration.
Obama sternly takes oil companies to task for fingerpointing over Gulf spill
President Barack Obama says this week’s finger pointing by oil companies involved in the Gulf oil spill was a “ridiculous spectacle.”
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