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BP Report Blames Numerous Parties, Factors For Gulf Oil Spill
Posted on 9 Sep 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

BP on Sept. 8 released a report blaming a number of factors and parties, including itself, Halliburton and Transocean, for the April 20 explosion on its Deepwater Horizon deepwater oil drilling rig. In a press release on the BP Web site ( www.bp... Read More

Tags: Bob Dudley , blow-out preventer , Gulf Oil spill , Macondo , Halliburton , Tony Hayward , personal injury , Carl-Henric Svanberg , oil spill , Deepwater Horizon , Transocean , Litigation , BP , torts , Gulf of Mexico

BP Report Blames Itself, Others For Oil Spill
Posted on 8 Sep 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW ORLEANS - (AP) In an internal report released Wednesday, BP blames itself, other companies' workers and a complex series of failures for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the drilling rig explosion that preceded it. The 193-page report... Read More

Tags: Bob Dudley , Gulf Oil spill , Halliburton , drilling , Tony Hayward , House Committee on Energy and Commerce , oil spill , NASA , Deepwater Horizon , Justice Department , Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement , well , Transocean , Louisiana , Litigation , Coast Guard , lawsuit , blowout preventer , BP oil spill , BP , Gulf of Mexico , methane

BP's Hayward Defends Company's Safety Record
Posted on 15 Sep 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

LONDON - (AP) Outgoing BP CEO Tony Hayward defended his company's safety record Wednesday in the face of questions from British lawmakers, and said the Gulf of Mexico oil spill should not lead to a universal ban on deepwater drilling. Hayward gave... Read More

Tags: Bob Dudley , Gulf Oil spill , Macondo , Halliburton , U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee , Tony Hayward , Mark Bly , deepwater drilling , Deepwater Horizon , Transocean , Litigation , lawsuit , Parliament , BP , Energy and Climate Change Committee , Tim Yeo