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The settlement includes payments of $2.394 billion to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, $1.15 billion to the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, $350 million to the National Academy of Sciences for oil spill prevention and response research, $100 million to the North America Wetland Conservation Fund, $6 million to General Treasury and ...
[13] An unused Oil Spill Commission slide [14] obtained by Greenwire, outlines 11 decisions that BP and its contractors ( Halliburton Co., Transocean Ltd. and MI Swaco) made before the disaster that may have increased risk on the rig. At least nine of the decisions saved time, and the majority were made on shore, mainly by BP.
A federal commission investigating the BP (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, issued a scathing report today, saying BP and its cement contractor Halliburton (HAL) knew that test results ...
In 2015, After the Spill, [99] Jon Bowermaster investigates how the disaster affected local economies and the health of humans, animals, and food sources, and with Corexit, where all the oil went, as a follow-up to the pre-spill SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories, in post-production when the Deepwater Horizon exploded.
The lead investigator for the presidential panel investigating the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster refuted previous reports that the rig's majority owner BP (BP) and contractor Halliburton ...
The largest landholder in the Florida Panhandle is suffering huge losses due to the BP oil spill. And it's looking for someone to pay. The St. Joe Company, a real estate developer in Florida that ...
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. [8]
Oilfield services company Halliburton (HAL) has garnered plenty of unwanted attention from the event in the Gulf of Mexico. While the company's role in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill remains ...