BP, oil spill victims fight over venue for court casesSimon Shifrin
In a court filing, oil company B.P. alleged that Halliburton's cement work was inadequate and asked a federal judge to punish the oilfield services company. The cement slurry in question went into drilling the Macendo oil well that blew out April 10, 2010, killing 11 and resulting in ...
The environmental group had said that the emissions from the ultimate consumption of the oil should be the criterion for granting a licence. Credit: Clyde Thomas/Unsplash Greenpeace has lost its court case after challenging a UK Government decision to grant the permit toBPfor the drilling on the...
Navigators Insurance, part of The Hartford, does not have to cover most medical and injury claims from 2,000 workers who cleaned beaches after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal appeals court decided Wednesday. In a case that centered on a new type of legal claim for...
Justice Samuel Alito, who has previously disclosed investments in energy companies, didn't participate in the case. The Supreme Court's decision doesn't address the merits of the climate claims, but it gives oil and gas companies a fresh chance to steer litigation toward the federal court ...
and legal rights, through injunctive, declaratory, and equitable relief issued by this Court before such claims are forever barred by adoption of Instagram’s New Terms,” the filing said. “For this reason, even though the New Terms are not yet effective, this case is ‘ripe’ for adjudicat...
The justices did not comment Monday in rejecting the London-based oil giant'sarguments that lower courts misinterpreted settlement termsand put BP on the hook to pay inflated and bogus claims by businesses. The court's decision makes the economic and property damage settlement final, starting a ...
"The whole matter of the BOP, whether it worked or didn't work ... could change the whole outcome of the whole investigation," says Daniel Becnel, an attorney representing a host of plaintiffs in the consolidated federal court case. ...
Volkswagen's emissions scandal could be far more painful for investors than BP's disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit Suisse (CS) estimates that the total cost to the company could hit 78 billion euros ($87 billion) in a worst case scenario. That's about 60% more th...
In August, a fire on the BTC line in Turkey and military conflict in Georgia led to the temporary suspension of oil exports from Azerbaijan. The following month production at two platforms in the ACG complex had to be halted due to the discovery of a gas release. Running safe, reliable ...