BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill timeline
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BP Begins Testing of New, Tighter-Fitting Cap
BP allayed last-minute government fears of making the disaster worse and began testing the new, tighter-fitting cap today that could finally choke... Read more
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BP Stock Jumps 7% with Successful Capping of Gulf Leak
British Petroleum's (NYSE:BP) share price jumped in late-day trading as news came out that the oil company had successfully stopped their broken... Read more
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House Committee Votes to Block BP Drilling for Up to Seven Years
Rep. Bart Stupak downplayed concerns that blocking from BP from new drilling would affect its ability to pay for the Gulf cleanup. "I'm not going... Read more
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Gulf Oil Leak Contained
A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. The... Read more
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BP Extends Test of Well Cap Beyond Initial 48-Hour Timeframe
As this afternoon marks the critical 48-hour point since BP plugged its Macondo well, engineers tensely monitor pressure readings and underwater... Read more
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Seepage Detected from Another Well Near Capped Leak
The federal government's oil spill chief said Tuesday that seepage two miles from BP's oil cap is coming from another well, tamping down fears that... Read more
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Oil Firms Announce Development of Spill Rapid-Response System
Readers who've been following BP's response to the Deepwater Horizon spill will find the containment system familiar: It is modeled after some of... Read more
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Tropical Storm Bonnie Forces Suspension of Relief Well Drilling
The tropical storm Bonnie has forced BP to temporarily suspend drilling on its relief well in the Gulf of Mexico. Work to permanently plug the oil... Read more
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BP Admits to Minor Alteration of Gulf Spill Images Using Photoshop
The oil giant was forced to issue new guidelines to staff to “refrain from doing (sic) cutting-and-pasting” after several official company images... Read more
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Technician Tells Investigators Oil Rig Alarm System Disabled on Day of Blast
Williams testified that he had asked before about the settings and was told the company didn't want a false alarm waking people at night. Williams... Read more
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BP Ships Return to Gulf Leak After Departure of Tropical Storm Bonnie
The effort to plug BP's leaky oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was back on track today as the skies cleared and crews raced to stop the gusher for... Read more
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Reports Find Surface of Oil Spill Virtually Gone
On the 100th day of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there is word of a stunning disappearance of surface crude from the BP... Read more
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BP Executive Tony Hayward Announces Departure in October
"The Gulf of Mexico explosion was a terrible tragedy. As the man in charge of BP when it happened, I will always feel a deep responsibility,... Read more
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Scientists Find Mix of Oil and Dispersent Entering Food Chain
The dispersant, scientists say, has broken down the oil into droplets, making them small enough to find their way under the tiny crab larvae's... Read more
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Departing BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward Defends Response to Oil Spill
Tony Hayward , the departing chief executive of BP PLC, is unrepentant about how the energy giant responded to the U.S.'s largest offshore oil... Read more
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Bob Dudley, New BP CEO, Proposes Cleanup 'Scaleup'
Bob Dudley, who heads BP's oil spill recovery and will take over as CEO in October, said it's "not too soon for a scaleback" in the cleanup, and in... Read more
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Study Shows Gulf Spill Largest of Its Kind in History
Nearly five million barrels of oil have gushed from BP’s well — and about 800,000 have been captured by containment efforts —since the Deepwater... Read more
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BP Begins 'Static Kill' to Plug Oil Leak
Crews should know within hours whether the mud is pushing down the oil as envisioned. But engineers still won't know for more than a week whether... Read more
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BP Announces Success of 'Static Kill'
The operation was "textbook. It went exactly as we would have expected," a BP exec told CNN, adding that the firm's engineers won't decide whether... Read more
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Oil Discovered Oozing from Louisiana Ground
These days in Louisiana, even the hermit crabs are digging oil wells. Researchers on a barrier island off the southeastern Louisiana coast who were... Read more
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US Government Report Indicates Three-Quarters of Oil has Disappeared
And officials say they’re pretty confident about their calculations. “There’s absolutely no evidence that there’s any significant concentration of... Read more
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BP Begins Cementing of Oil Well
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen has approved the cementing, but he stresses that BP must still go ahead with a second, ongoing well-plugging... Read more
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BP Begins Relief Well Drilling as 'Static Kill' Declared Success
The cement sealing the blown oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has hardened as crews prepare for the final phase of drilling a relief well, BP said... Read more
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Feds Introduce Tighter Regulations for Offshore Drilling Projects
The new guidelines "serve to hold offshore operators accountable and ensure that the industry and the country are fully prepared to deal with... Read more
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22-Mile-Long Underwater Oil Plume Found in Gulf of Mexico
Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill formed an underwater plume of hydrocarbons the size of Manhattan, scientists said Thursday, raising fears of a... Read more