Gulf State lawmakers push administration to speed up offshore drilling permits
The deep-water moratorium may be over, but lawmakers in a meeting with the nation’s top offshore drilling regulator on Monday insisted that it has been replaced by a de facto permit slowdown. (Photo: Smiley N. Pool / The Chronicle) More »
BP plans propaganda film on Gulf disaster
BP wants to make a movie, and not just any movie, Loren Steffy writes. This will be a feature-length spin-doctored extravaganza about the company’s role in unleashing the worst oil spill in U.S. waters. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) More »
Feds sue Transocean claiming company’s hiding safety reports
Feds demand Transocean’s safety reports. Rig operator counters that some of the data government lawyers requested is “irrelevent” and outside the scope of the feds’ investigation. (Photo: Valerie Everett/Flickr) More »
Spill panel’s findings: the CliffsNotes version
Does an omitted-yet-discussed slide from the presidential spill panel hearings reveal new info about the Deepwater Horizon spill? Or is it just a slow news week? (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) More »
Gulf spill fund gets flood of last-minute claims
Kenneth Feinberg said Wednesday that most of the about 450,000 emergency claims filed this week likely will be denied because there was not enough documentation to support them. (BP Photo) More »
Rig investigators face resistance
Federal investigators examining what caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster are running into roadblocks as crew members on the doomed drilling rig refuse to testify under oath about the incident, and key stakeholders question one investigative agency’s jurisdiction. (Photo: Robert Marinkovic/Flickr) More »
Report: Dispersants broke up twice as much oil as original estimate
Peer reviewed report says more of the Gulf spill was scattered by chemicals than thought. That doesn’t change the unknowns about the impact of the spill on the environment. More »
Norway investigates Statoil blowout
Statoil “got lucky” that the blowout in May on the Gullfaks C platform didn’t lead to loss of life like the Macondo well, a Norweigan regulator’s report says. (Photo:Øyvind Hagen/Statoil) More »
Industry reps say platitudes all that came out of drilling summit
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s summit with offshore drilling advocates today won’t lead to swift government action on permitting decisions, industry leaders said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) More »
Oil spill panel: Bad flow numbers contributed to containment failures
Underestimates of the amount of oil flowing out of BP’s Macondo well impeded several attempts to contain the gusher, according to the staff of a presidential commission probing the Deepwater Horizon disaster. (AP photo) More »
BP: You cannot sue us here or there
Loren Steffy looks at the documents that lay out BP’s “spill and run” legal strategy, in which it’s arguing that shareholders can only sue the company in England and that Tony Hayward cannot face legal action here because he’s not a U.S. citizen. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo) More »
BP changes to a spill and run strategy
In response to investors’ lawsuit over the Gulf oil spill, BP claims it shouldn’t be sued here because it’s based in England and therefore governed by English law. Or, as Loren Steffy writes, “It would prefer to be sued someplace it finds more convenient, thank you.” (Photo: Diliff) More »
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