Texas on Friday joined other Gulf states suing BP for environmental damage caused by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.  More »

Mike Chaudron, director of sales for Det Norske Veritas Certification, one of four audit firms provisionally certified to audit offshore operators’ safety plans, talks about challenges in implementing the new federally mandated process.  More »

A Texas company has found a way to turn oil field trash into something useful — roads and new drilling pads.  More »

Major U.S. and overseas schools have been sharing with attendees to the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston research and development projects they are involved in that relate to industry subjects.  More »

Industry experts told members of Congress the Interior Department’s potential regulations to hydraulic fracturing –  fracking —  on federal lands is a threat to jobs and energy security and an effort they consider “duplicative.” Texas Rep. Bill Flores, who has been an ardent opponent of proposals to increase federal oversight of hydraulic fracturing, said regulations should be  Read More  More »

Federal prosecutors say an attorney for a former BP executive charged with lying to Congress about how much oil was flowing after BP’s Gulf of Mexico well blew out in 2010 may have a conflict of interest that could prevent him from representing his client.  More »

Even as BP continues to fight litigation that could result in it having to pay billions of dollars more in fines and damages stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a senior company official says the British oil giant has already gone “above and beyond” what the law requires.  More »

The decision came after a federal judge ruled last month that BLM had violated a key environmental law.  More »

U.S. District Judge William Smith said that the high court’s decision means he is limited to fining Southern Union Co. $500,000 or the equivalent in community service  More »

BP says the amount of money it will spend on early restoration projects to repair damage to the environment caused by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has now reached $665 million, more than half of the up to $1 billion it committed two years ago to spend.  More »

A federal judge has barred prosecutors at the trial of a former BP engineer charged with obstruction of justice in connection with the investigation of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill from telling jurors he was suspended from his job and that he retained a personal attorney.  More »

BP will pay $340 million toward the up to $1 billion the company agreed to pay in early restoration projects in states impacted by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana said Tuesday.  More »