BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico
A frame grab of a live video stream of operations to stop the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is seen on June 30, 2010. The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion on April 20 that caused a massive oil spill and killed 11 workers continues to spill oil into the Gulf Coast despite BP's effort to cap the leak. UPI/BP
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Companies considering drilling for oil and gas in U.S. waters should assess the safety factors involved, an environmental researcher testified.
The U.S. Coast Guard said cleanup efforts following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is finished in three states: Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
The British government will use European Union measures on offshore oil and natural gas safety as a benchmark for the domestic industry, an official said.
UPI Almanac for Wednesday, June 5, 2013.
Legislation in the European Union regarding oil and natural gas production safety is long overdue, Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said.
A member of Congress who led an investigation into the BP oil spill in 2010 expressed outrage that a judge threw out a charge against a former BP executive.
Oil giant BP has turned to the government for help with the compensation deal for victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the BBC reported.
BP said it wants British Prime Minister David Cameron to raise the issue of fines associated with the 2010 oil spill at the Group of Eight meeting next month.
Exxon Mobil and Norwegian energy major Statoil said they were examining a frontier field in the Gulf of Mexico said to hold 6 billion barrels of reserves.
Crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill sickened an important fish species in the Gulf of Mexico for at least a year after the disaster, researchers say.
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