Text messages deleted by a BP engineer involved in the attempts to block the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill could have been evidence in the US Justice Department's probe into the disaster, an FBI agent told a court yesterday.
The Government has shown its support for BP in a legal dispute over a ban on the oil giant winning federal contracts in the US following the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
BP has won a significant step in its ongoing court battle against overpaying compensation from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill.
The trial of a BP engineer accused of trying to block investigations into the Deepwater Horizon spill is set to begin in New Orleans today.
BP will continue to build on their West of Shetland presence after securing four offers, on the edge of its Clare field. See the full list of winners here.
US lawmakers are to rule on whether a judge was right to approve BP's multi-billion dollar settlement for compensating victims of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
BP is to fund a new $4million research project with the University of Texas to support the next generation of deepwater oil and gas exploration.
BP says it plans to sell off a further £6billion of assets over the next few months after seeing profits fall by more than $1.billion in the last year.
A North Sea oil field which was shut down due to its links with Iran is to resume production within weeks.
BP has appointed Richard Herbert as its new head of exploration - after snatching the oil and gas veteran from Talisman.
The amount of oil spilled by the Macondo well in 2010 was more than 1.7million barrels less than the total claimed by US authorities, a leading industry expert has said.
Expert witnesses at the trial over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster have cast doubt on BP claims over the speed at which the blown-out Macondo well eroded.
The equivalent of 16 Exxon Valdez tankers spilled into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a court heard today.
The administrator handling compensation claims over the Deepwater Horizon disaster has been ordered to stop settlements to some companies who claim the oil spill cost them money.
BP’s claims that a judge’s interpretation of a settlement over its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could force the company to pay billions of dollars for bogus or inflated claims by businesses have been revived after a court ruling last night.
A BP executive who led the company’s efforts to halt the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill claims his decisions were guided by the principle the company should not do anything that could make the crisis even worse.
BP has been ordered to pay out $111million to the claims administrator handling the compensation from the Macondo disaster.
BP will return to court this evening as the second phase of the trial spawned by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster gets under way, with a focus on the company’s response to the deadly disaster.
Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft is to buy out minority shareholders of the TNK-BP venture it took over in a £36billion deal earlier this year.
BP has again asked US authorities to halt payments from its settlement agreement over the Deepwater Horizon disaster in a new row over anti-fraud protection.
EXCLUSIVE: The man who helped expose a multimillion-pound bribe plot involving BP claimed last night that the oil giant froze him out for blowing the whistle.
BP's bitter court battle over the 2010 Macondo oil spill has taken another twist after the oil giant launched a lawsuit against a Louisiana regulator.
The North Sea's biggest platform is 30 years old today - and the oil giant behind it has revealed plans to use it for another 20 years to come.
Iraq is looking to revive the northern Kirkuk oil field after striking a deal with BP.
BP says it has made a 'significant' gas find in Egypt after drilling the deepest well in the Nile Delta.