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Transocean Shareholders Oust Chairman
create its "failed capital allocation strategy," including Talbert. Transocean, based in Switzerland, owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig which exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, triggering a massive offshore oil spill. The
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J.C. Penney and 6 Other Noteworthy Company Apologiesspill in U.S. history After BP's Macondo well ruptured on April 20, 2011, which triggered an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, killing 11 and causing the worst offshore spill in U.S. history, the company knew it had some
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The Note's Must-Reads for Tuesday February 19, 2013
Liability " BP PLC already has agreed to pay more than $30 billion in fines, settlements and cleanup costs for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. Now it is placing a big bet that by going to trial next week, it can hold down the cost
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Ken Salazar's Exit Leaves Obama Cabinet Without Latinossecretary, Salazar's most high-profile moment came when he oversaw an offshore oil drilling moratorium after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, noted the Denver Post , which first reported Salazar's departure.
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Iran Suspected in Bank Site Hacking
Water Act. The Switzerland-based company also agreed to pay $1 billion in civil penalties. Transocean owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which sank after an explosion killed 11 workers and led to the spill. Apple is said to be working
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5 Things to Know This Morningthe getaway car. 4. New Oil May be Leaking From Deepwater Horizon Site BP and the Coast Guard are reportedly working to determine whether new oil is leaking from the Deepwater Horizon drill site. Satellite photos have been documented
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Body Believed to Be Missing Worker Found Near Site of Oil Rig Blastgallons, which is less than what an SUV gas tank might hold. The Louisiana explosion is a reminder of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill about 85 miles away, which made headlines this week when BP agreed to a $4.5 billion settlement and two
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Coast Guard Still Looking for Missing Oil Rig Workers
28-gallon spill. That's less than the size of an SUV gas tank. The Louisiana explosion is a reminder of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill about 85 miles away, which made headlines this week when BP agreed to a $4.5 billion settlement and two
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Oil Rig Explosion and Fire in Gulf Coast, Two Missingaboard the platform. The explosion and fire comes the day after BP agreed to a $4 billion settlement for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion in the gulf, triggering the worst offshore oil spill in the country's history.
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BP Agrees to $4.5 Billion Gulf Spill Settlement; 3 Former Employees Chargedby well site managers on the Deepwater Horizon drilling ship allegedly led deaths of 11 workers aboard Deepwater Horizon . The company has agreed to deaths of the 11 men onboard the Deepwater Horizon could have been avoided
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Obama vs. Romney: Vacation Smack DownBeach, Fla. The summer of 2010 proved to be a difficult one for tourism on Florida's Gulf Coast after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Fearing oil on the beaches and in the Gulf's pristine waters, visitors chose other vacation destinations
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Romney Hires PR Vet To Bite Back on Bain Attacks
she took on yet another touchy cause: Defending BP as it tried in vein to staunch the flow of oil from its busted Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. It wasn't the first time Davis had been tasked with quelling an angry public. In
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Dolphin and Turtle Deaths Up Two Years After Gulf Spill Cleanupthe Gulf, eat seafood, it's fine' is a problem." The health risks of dispersants used in the response to the Deepwater Horizon spill are not yet fully known, said Cheryl Murphy, an environmental toxicologist at Michigan State University
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Review: 'Private Empire' takes compelling look at ExxonMobil
tanker Exxon Valdez near the coast of Alaska. (In Chapter 28, Coll also deals with ExxonMobil's role in the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico disaster during 2010. British Petroleum took the brunt of the criticism, as it should have, but
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Kevin Costner Holds Off Stephen Baldwin in New Orleans Courtroom Clashfiled a suit in December 2010 against Costner and Smith, over profits from the technology that BP leased for the Deepwater Horizon spill . Costner's device is a five-ton centrifuge designed to separate water from oil, spit out clean water
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Obama's June Swoonstone on Iran" June 26 - House passes cap-and-trade bill June 2010: BP, and "The Runaway General" BP's Deepwater Horizon catastrophe defined the spring of 2010 for Obama. With health-care reform signed, financial reform not yet passed
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How Kevin Costner Sold $52M of Centrifuges That BP Never Used in Gulf Cleanupprofits from a technology that BP leased for the Deepwater Horizon spill . The actors' trial proceedings take place plaintiffs' filing. Then on April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig under charter to BP exploded and caught
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Study: Oil spills a frequent risk to inland areas of Midwest
Even though the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon disasters have grabbed the headlines, oil spills hit land much more frequently, posing risks for lakes, streams and rivers
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More Unemployed Americans to Lose Jobless Benefits
into whether BP representatives lied to Congress about how much oil was leaking into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. The Wall Street Journal says investigators are exploring whether engineers working to seal the
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Gray Whales, Protected Off Mexico, May Face New Threat in Arctictaken responsibility, engineering a containment system like the one that was ultimately successful in stopping the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. The company added that it has also "assembled an ... oil spill response fleet
