BP has said the cost of dealing with its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had risen to $8 billion as the oil giant prepared to… BP has said the cost of dealing with its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ...

HOUSTON – The US Chemical Safety Board is launching an investigation into the root causes of the BP oil spill disaster that killed… HOUSTON – The US Chemical Safety Board is launching an investigation ...

BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

BP said a complex series of events led to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster BP's investigation into the Gulf of Mexico spill sparked a backlash from its contractors and US politicians who accused the ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill seems to divide people into two categories: those who can’t forget, and those who refuse to remember. In the first camp are Gulf Coast residents and environmentalists ...

BP shares came under pressure today as it was reported that staff at the beleaguered oil giant could face manslaughter charges over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. US prosecutors are understood to be ...

A US judge has given final approval to BP's settlement with businesses and people who lost money over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP estimates it will pay 7.8 billion dollars (£4.8 billion) to ...

Today a Louisiana judge accepted the guilty plea of oil giant British Petroleum in connection with the April 2010 explosion of its Deepwater Horizon platform that killed 11 workers, forcing BP to pay ...

The approach of Tropical Storm Bonnie has forced BP Plc to halt efforts to permanently plug a gushing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, sending ships and workers retreating to safety. Two rigs stopped ...

Down along the Gulf coast, the beaches look cleaner, the birds less tar-covered, but the longterm consequences of the BP oil spill are leaving their mark under the ocean's surface. Scientists continue ...