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The 4 Big Things BP Left Out of Its Spill Report

By Laura ParkerSep 9th 2010 – 10:06AM
Gerald Herbert, AP

Gerald Herbert, AP

ANALYSIS (Sept. 9) -- So the world now knows what's in BP's much-publicized internal report on what happened on the Deepwater Horizon rig. But what's not in the document? Quite a bit. The report lays out in 193 pages, with a full complement of appendices, eight factors that BP says converged to cause the Gulf of...

BP: Series of Calamities Caused Gulf Oil Spill

By Lauren FrayerSep 8th 2010 – 9:06AM
AP

AP

(Sept. 8) -- BP has concluded that a "sequence of failures" by "multiple companies and work teams" led to the explosion and fire that killed 11 workers and triggered the world's largest accidental oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year. "No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy," the oil giant said...

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