A high-flying Irish lawyer named global maritime lawyer of the year has dedicated the award to his father who lost his life in the Whiddy Island disaster.

BP bears the majority of responsibility among the companies involved in America’s worst offshore oil spill, a federal judge has ruled, citing the energy giant’s reckless conduct in a ruling that exposes the oil giant to billions of dollars in penalties.

A US appeal court has refused to reconsider its previous ruling that businesses do not have to prove they were harmed directly by BP’s 2010 Gulf Of Mexico oil spill to collect settlement payments.

A US jury is deciding whether a former BP engineer broke the law or harmlessly swiped his finger across a mobile phone when he deleted hundreds of text messages in the aftermath of the deadly Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

A US federal appeals court has revived 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.

“IT’S as safe as Dawn dishwashing liquid.” That’s what Jamie Griffin says the BP man told her about the smelly, rainbow-streaked gunk coating the floor of the “floating hotel” where Griffin was feeding hundreds of cleanup workers during the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil giant BP has warned that millions of dollars of “fictitious” compensation claims for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are putting the company at risk.

BP failed to implement a new safety plan on the Deepwater Horizon rig even though it realised a blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was its greatest danger, a court heard today.

British energy giant BP said net profits slumped by more than half in 2012 as the group was rocked by fines and asset sales linked to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, ahead of a US trial later this month.

The company which leased the Deepwater Horizon rig to oil giant BP has been fined $1.4bn (€1.06bn) after admitting its role in the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

Oil giant BP has been suspended from new contracts with the US government because of the way it handled the Gulf rig disaster.

BP has agreed to sell a range of North Sea oil fields to an Arab energy giant in a $1.1bn (€848.5m) deal.

An explosion and fire ripped through a Gulf oil platform in the US today as workers used a cutting torch, sending four people to a hospital with burns and leaving two missing in the sea off Louisiana.

Two men who worked for BP during the 2010 oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have been charged with manslaughter and a third with lying to federal investigators, according to indictments made public yesterday, hours after BP announced it was paying $4.5bn in a settlement with the US government over the disaster.

BP has agreed with the US to pay billions over the Gulf oil spill, according to a source close to the deal.

BP has said it is close to settling criminal claims from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill two years ago.

The state of Louisiana has asked a federal judge to declare a jury trial to decide on its claim for more than $1bn from BP Plc to compensate the state for economic losses resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Royal Dutch Shell has halted its drilling in the Arctic a day after the work began as sea ice moved towards the company’s drill ship off Alaska, putting what the company has called a historic move on temporary hold.

BP’s hopes of reaching a settlement over the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe were dealt a blow today after it emerged that the US Government intends to prove gross negligence or wilful misconduct at trial.

BP focused too much on the little details of personal worker safety instead of the big systemic hazards that led to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a US government safety panel has concluded.

Oil giant BP revealed a dip in profits today as its commitment to sell off billions of pounds of assets in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico disaster hit production.

The “Queen of Mean”, the late billionaire Leona Helmsley, is reputed to have once said publicly that “we do not pay taxes, only the little people pay taxes”. Mind you, that was before she spent time in clink on tax evasion charges.

The first criminal charges in the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been filed against a former BP engineer who allegedly destroyed evidence.

BP Plc and lawyers for businesses and individuals suing over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill are near a $14bn (€10.64bn) accord to be funded with money set aside for out-of-court settlements, according to people familiar with the talks.

The US court case over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster has been delayed for a week after a judge heard that BP was making some progress in settlement talks.

BRITISH oil giant BP is pushing the US energy services firm Halliburton, to pay for all the costs BP incurred in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Oil giant BP has fired the latest shots in a legal battle over the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, claiming contractor Halliburton should pay all of its billions of dollars of costs.

BP is seeking to shield itself from having to compensate Halliburton for punitive damages, fines and penalties the cement contractor may face for its role in the deadly rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP will no longer be responsible for cleaning up oil washed up on the Gulf Coast unless it can be proved to come from the rig disaster, according to a Coast Guard plan.

The under-pressure boss of BP today insisted the beleaguered oil giant had reached a “turning point” despite production falling as it continues to sell off billions of dollars worth of assets in the wake of last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

A KEY US federal report has laid much of the blame on BP for the worst offshore oil spill in US history and the deaths of 11 rig workers — particularly with regard to the cement seal that was put in place the day before the explosion that triggered the spill.

A key US report has laid much of the blame on BP for the massive Gulf of Mexico rig disaster.

A US judge has thrown out racketeering claims by the lead plaintiffs suing BP over last year’s oil spill.

THE owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year has largely blamed oil giant BP for the disaster.

Former BP boss Tony Hayward launched a £1bn fundraising today as part of a high-profile return to the oil and gas sector.

Relatives flew over Gulf of Mexico waters where 11 oil rig workers died a year ago, residents gathered in prayer vigils onshore and President Barack Obama vowed to hold BP and others accountable for “the painful losses that they’ve caused”.

BP is suing Transocean for at least $40bn (€27bn) in damages, accusing the rig owner of causing last year’s deadly blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico that led to the worst offshore oil spill in US history.

SCIENTISTS judge the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal one year after the BP oil spill, but with glaring blemishes that restrain their optimism about nature’s resiliency.

Oil giant BP is facing calls from some of its biggest shareholders to sell off up to half of its assets as part of a radical restructuring of the group, it was reported today.

BP faced protests from angry fishermen and disgruntled shareholders at its first annual general meeting since the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A number of protesters were ejected from BP’s Annual General Meeting today after attempting to storm the stage.

OIL giant BP is expected to face further shareholder ire at its annual general meeting over “wholly unacceptable” boardroom pay packets awarded in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

Oil giant BP is facing a wave of protests as it holds its annual general meeting in London days before the first anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

OIL giant BP plans to restart deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico this summer just a year after the Deepwater Horizon explosion that sparked the worst oil spill in history.