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The 4 Big Things BP Left Out of Its Spill Report

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

(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...

Weather Delay, Internal Report Add to BP's Woes

(Aug. 30) -- Heavy seas forced a two- to three-day delay in the planned removal today of the temporary cap on BP's blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well. The latest setback comes as a new internal investigation raises serious questions about BP's decision-making leading up to the explosion that killed 11 workers and unleashed...