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BP says costs of Gulf oil spill response have reached .65 billion
NEW ORLEANS – BP says the cost of the company’s response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has reached about .65 billion.
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BP says new tests show it’s on target to finish drilling relief well by mid-August
Tests show BP is on target for mid-August completion of a relief well in the Gulf of Mexico, the best hope of stopping the oil that’s been gushing since April, the company said Friday.
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Tern nesting areas being disturbed by oil spill cleanup workers, conservationist says
Species protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
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BP says its costs for Gulf oil spill have reached US billion
LONDON – BP says it has now spent US billion responding to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and with no end yet in sight, that sum will continue to rise.
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Anadarko Says Well Operator BP Should Pay for Spill (Update2)
June 18 (Bloomberg) — Anadarko Petroleum Corp. , the Texas oil company that owns 25 percent of the damaged well pouring crude into the Gulf of Mexico, said BP Plc , the well’s operator, should pay the costs from the disaster because of the reckless and unsafe way it drilled at the site.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2010-06-19 18:32 BP says restarts shut oil containment system
HOUSTON, June 19 (Reuters) – BP Plc said its drillship oil containment system restarted early on Saturday after a 10-hour shutdown to fix a problem and let a storm pass. The company said in a statement that the system was restarted at 6:30 a.m. CDT (1130 GMT) “and has been building up to stable rates since.” (Reporting by Kristen Hays; Editing by Doina Chiacu) Keywords: OIL SPILL/CAP
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BP’s Spill Fund a Billion Shakedown, Barton Says (Update5)
June 17 (Bloomberg) — Representative Joe Barton , a Texas Republican, said a fund BP Plc agreed to establish after meeting with President Barack Obama yesterday amounted to “a billion shakedown.”
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BP’s Spill Fund a Billion Shakedown, Republican Barton Says
Rep. Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, said a fund BP agreed to establish after meeting with President Obama yesterday amounted to “a billion shakedown”
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BP chief says he wasn’t in loop on decisions
By Calvin Woodward and Frederic J. Frommer Associated Press WASHINGTON — Channeling the nation’s anger, lawmakers pilloried BP’s boss in a withering day of judgment Thursday for the oil company at the center of the Gulf calamity.
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BP CEO Stonewalls Congress in Misguided Crisis PR Move, Says Dobson
PR Expert Brian Dobson of DobsonPR.com said, “BP’s CEO Hayward repeatedly indicated he was unqualified, uninformed, unaware and unprepared to answer Congressional panel questions about the oil spill disaster for which BP is responsible. That’s a weak PR tactic for the CEO of a global company in crisis.” (PRWeb Jun 18, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases …
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