Oil spill fund chief says he welcomes oversight Kansas City Star The administrator of a billion fund to compensate victims of last year's Gulf of Mexico oil spill said he welcomes an independent audit of how much money has been paid out and what calculations were made to arrive at those payouts. … Oil spill claims czar: Shrimpers' pain continuesBoston.com Oil spill claims czar: Shrimpers' pain continuesThe Associated Press BP's Spill Fund Paid .5 Billion in Claims, Feinberg SaysBusinessWeek WLTZ 38 NBC all 201 news articles »
Report Rips Firms, Oversight Wall Street Journal Federal investigators released their final report Wednesday into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico last year, castigating oil giant BP PLC and its contractors for their … Deepwater Horizon report syphons off some of blame from BPThe Guardian BP Shortcuts Led to Gulf Oil Spill, Report SaysNew York Times BP, contractors violated safety rules, US inquiry findsLos Angeles Times Washington Post –PBS NewsHour all 1,793 news articles »
Government Oversight Committee Demands Economic Considerations for Gulf Safety … Huffington Post (blog) In the aftermath of the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar twice ordered a six month moratorium on deepwater drilling in US waters. The Secretary's orders effectively banned much of the economic … The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: A Year OnCaribbean Media Vision Embargo may block U.S. response to Cuban oil spillSan Antonio Express BP not keeping its promisesDaily Home Online Record-Searchlight –FuelFix (blog) –UK Human Rights Blog (blog) all 49 news articles »
Chief Offshore Drilling Regulator Criticizes Lack of Oversight for Contractors Alaska Dispatch BP had leased the Deepwater Horizon rig from the contractor Transocean and relied on the contractor Halliburton to provide casing for the Macondo well. The government currently regulates only operators of offshore drilling rigs, such as BP, … Perhaps some lessons learnedAlexandria Town Talk Digging deepTaranaki Daily News US House backs more oil drillingUPI.com istockAnalyst.com (press release) –NOLA.com –Biscayne Times all 26 news articles »
Design, Oversight Flaws Contributed To Oil Spill Blowout RedOrbit In an email sent to Efstathiou, BP Spokesman Scott Dean had that the company "has made every effort to understand the causes of the Deepwater Horizon accident to help prevent similar events from occurring in the future… The findings of the … Oil spill panel blames lax oversight of well cementingHouston Chronicle Scathing Oil Spill Report Actually Good News For BPForbes (blog) BP Workers Could Have Averted Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster: ReportNewser Bloomberg –AFP –NOLA.com all 383 news articles »
Oil spill panel blames lax oversight of well cementing Houston Chronicle WASHINGTON — BP failed to keep a close watch on work done by the cement contractor at its doomed Macondo well, even though an audit spotlighted problems with Halliburton Co. three years before the Deepwater Horizon disaster, … Scathing Oil Spill Report Actually Good News For BPForbes (blog) BP Workers Could Have Averted Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster: ReportNewser BP Knew of Halliburton's Troubles Before Gulf BlowoutBloomberg MyFox Chicago –AFP all 373 news articles »
Speed of return to deepwater drilling depends on oversight, officials say NOLA.com View full sizeEliot Kamenitz, The Times-Picayune archiveCoast Guard Rear Adm. Peter Neffenger addresses the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon…
Independent oversight of offshore oil drilling urged The News-Press Graham, who chairs a presidential commission that just released a scathing investigation into the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, put part of the blame on a … Oil spill panel gives lawmakers a get-tough safety guideWashington Post Anderson Cooper Slams "Nonsense" Charges Made Against Him In Deepwater Horizon…Mediaite.com After the Deepwater Horizon oil spillrabble.ca Petroleum News –OilVoice (press release) –MiamiHerald.com all 96 news articles »
US Plans New Offshore Safety Oversight Agency Helicopter Association International 13 said the new agency's creation is a response to last spring's Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill. The spill led to a closer look at the … Shell, others allowed to resume deepwater drilling in Gulf of MexicoInternational Business Times New oil drilling regulator lays out the road aheadMiamiHerald.com Agency would focus exclusively on safety in offshore oil drilling, productionLos Angeles Times Bloomberg –The Hill (blog) all 210 news articles »
Gulf oil disaster report makes recommendations for more regulation and oversight Examiner.com Six months after the BP Oil spew caused the loss of life and an unprecedented level of Gulf contamination, the Presidents' council issued their report and … Gulf Political SpillWall Street Journal Mississippi leaders wary of federal oil spill reportMississippi Press (blog) Panel Raps Feds, Industry For SpillChemical & Engineering News National Legal and Policy Center –ComputerworldUK (blog) –Houston Chronicle all 2,112 news articles »
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