BP Complaints

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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BP Said to Agree on Billion Fund for Oil Spill (Update2)
BP Plc tentatively agreed to put about billion over time into a fund to pay damages resulting from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, with claims administered by the lawyer who oversaw executive compensation under the government’s financial bailout, people familiar with the talks said.
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BP Says It Captured 6,077 Barrels of Oil From Well (Update2)
June 5 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc said it collected 6,077 barrels of oil from its leaking Gulf of Mexico well in a 24-hour period using a system intended to capture more than 90 percent of the spill.
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Mitsui, Japan Drilling Drop on BP Oil Spill Fallout (Update2)
June 2 (Bloomberg) — Mitsui & Co. , a holder of a stake in the BP Plc-operated oil field where the Gulf of Mexico disaster is unfolding, fell the most in more than a year in Tokyo trading.
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BP Uses ‘Junk Shot,’ Calls Oil Spill a ‘Catastrophe’ (Update2)
May 28 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc added golf balls and rubber scraps to the mud it was pumping into its leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well in an effort to stop the spill that Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward called an “environmental catastrophe.”
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BP May Attempt to Plug Oil Leak With Mud Next Week (Update2)
BP Plc may try early next week to plug an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico by stuffing it with drilling mud, as President Barack Obama named two men today to lead a commission investigating the spill.
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Obama Picks Graham, Reilly to Probe Gulf Oil Spill (Update2)
May 22 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama named Democrat Bob Graham , a former U.S. senator and Florida governor, and Republican William Reilly , a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, to lead a presidential commission to investigate the BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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EPA Asks BP to Use Less Toxic Dispersant on Oil Spill (Update2)
May 20 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asked BP Plc to use a less toxic chemical dispersant on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico within the week.
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BP Capturing 5,000 Barrels a Day From Gulf Oil Leak (Update2)
BP Plc is capturing 5,000 barrels of oil a day from its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico. The company couldn’t say whether that was all of the crude from the well, which has been estimated to be leaking at that rate.
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BP Increases Capture Rate From Leaking Gulf Oil Well (Update2)
May 19 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc is funneling 3,000 barrels of oil a day to a ship above its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, a 50 percent increase from the rate it reported yesterday.
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