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By Jef Feeley and Allen Johnson Jr. (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton Co. are seeking to avoid billions of dollars in damages by

By Margaret Cronin Fisk (Bloomberg) — BP Plc heads into a sprawling trial Monday over who is liable for the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history

By Margaret Cronin Fisk, Jef Feeley and Laurel Brubaker Calkins (Bloomberg) — Halliburton Co. may escape paying billions of dollars in damages for its

By Margaret Cronin Fisk (Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd. won court approval of its $1 billion settlement with the U.S. of pollution claims stemming from the

Transocean Ltd. and federal prosecutors won approval of the oil driller’s agreement to plead guilty to violating the U.S. Clean Water Act for its role in

By Tom Fowler A federal judge approved a $4 billion settlement of criminal charges Tuesday between BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) and the U.S. Justice Department over the

BP Plc is seeking a reduction of as much as $3.4 billion in the fine it may have to pay for pollution caused by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico

*UPDATE* ZUG, SWITZERLAND-Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) (SIX: RIGN) today announced that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to

A special collection of articles about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill provides the first comprehensive analysis and synthesis of the science used in the

(Bloomberg) — Two BP Plc well-site managers and a former executive pleaded not guilty to criminal charges growing out of the 2010 Gulf of

LONDON–BP PLC‘s (BP.LN) $4.5 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission over criminal

By Joe Palazzolo BP PLC has agreed to plead guilty to a number of felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11

(Bloomberg) — BP Plc reached a settlement with the U.S. government for $4.5 billion that will end all criminal charges and resolve securities claims

BP said Thursday that it has capped the abandoned containment dome, or cofferdam, that was identified last week as the source of a recent oil sheen spotted in

A thin slick of oil in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be coming from a containment dome that was abandoned on the sea floor during efforts to stop

(Bloomberg) — An oil sheen discovered last month in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion matches samples from the BP

HOUSTON–Transocean Ltd. (RIG, RIGN.VX) is making progress towards a settlement in the Deepwater Horizon case, Chief Executive Steve Newman said

HOUSTON–U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday that the first lease sale in the central U.S. Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon oil

HOUSTON–Transocean Ltd. (RIG, RIGN.VX) said an executive misspoke Tuesday morning when he said that the company expected the U.S. to file more charges

(Dow Jones) A former engineer for BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) has been arrested and accused of deleting text messages detailing how much oil was gushing into the Gulf