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Corrosion Threatens BP Pipelines in Alaska; Could Lead to More Spills

(Nov. 3) -- Though BP's gulf oil spill, now capped, is fading from the headlines, the company could soon be responsible for another all-too-familiar environmental catastrophe: ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism outlet, has gotten its hands on an internal maintenance report on BP's Alaska pipeline system, and...

BP Says Payouts Endangered if Barred From Drilling in Gulf

(Sept. 3) -- BP (BP) warned that any legislation that stops it from drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico could prevent the oil giant from paying out compensation related to this year's oil spill. Congress is currently considering legislation that would bar any company from receiving offshore drilling permits if more...

BP Says It May Drill Again in Gulf Spill Reservoir

NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 6) -- BP PLC said today it might someday drill again into the same lucrative undersea pocket of oil that spilled millions of gallons of crude, wrecked livelihoods and fouled beaches along the Gulf of Mexico. "There's lots of oil and gas here," Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said at a news briefing....

BP Begins Pumping Cement Into Busted Gulf Well

10:31 AM ET Update: BP says it is pumping cement down blow-out Gulf well in effort to finish 'static kill' (AP) NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 5) -- BP planned to start pumping cement into its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, following up on a key development in the effort to kill the well when mud that was...

Why Would BP Photoshop Its Crisis Command Center?

(July 20) -- BP's public image problems took a turn for the weirder on Monday, with AMERICAblog's John Aravosis exposing a poorly doctored photo of the company's crisis command center in Houston that had been posted to the official crisis response website. The company has now come clean (sort of) to The Washington Post --...