BP Plc (BP/) was ordered to improve safety after being accused of “serious non-conformities” by Norway’s Petroleum Safety Agency following an investigation into a fire last July at the North Sea Valhall platform.  More »

Halliburton Co. denied BP Plc’s accusation that engineers destroyed testing evidence to keep it from being used in litigation over the Gulf of Mexico rig blast that triggered the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.  More »

A fund set up by BP to compensate victims of the worst U.S. oil spill froze payments until it gets clarification on a court order to set aside money to cover plaintiffs’ legal fees.  More »

Brazil’s oil regulator fined Chevron Corp. for the third time for not properly managing an offshore oil field that leaked last month.  More »

U.S. prosecutors are preparing what would be the first criminal charges against BP Plc (BP/) staff after the worst U.S. oil spill last year, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.  More »

Protesters from The Alabama Oil Spill Aftermath Coalition sought news media attention when they demonstrated at this year’s National Shrimp Festival. But they landed in a BP television ad, instead.  More »

A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed the federal government’s argument that a BP subsidiary violated its probation after an oil spill because of another spill on Alaska’s North Slope. Judge Ralph Beistline also lifted BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.’s probation altogether in a written order issued Tuesday.  More »

The worst Nigeria offshore oil spill in more than a decade has been contained before reaching the West African nation’s coast, officials with Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Monday, less than a week after one of its lines bled crude into the Atlantic Ocean.  More »

Brazil’s environmental protection agency has slapped a new fine on Chevron for what it says was the U.S. oil company’s poor handling of a spill last month off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state.  More »

A fuel pipeline exploded in Colombia on Friday, killing at least 11 people, injuring more than 70 others, and destroying homes.  More »

Brazil’s threatened indictment of Chevron Corp. (CVX) and Transocean Ltd. (RIG) executives after offshore oil leaks shows that regulators from the North Sea to the Indian Ocean are stepping up scrutiny after BP Plc’s 2010 disaster.  More »

Cameron International Corp. asked a federal appeals court to derail the February nonjury trial over which companies should be blamed for the 2010 BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  More »