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Regulation and Environment: Reviewing the safety record three years after...
We just hit the three-year mark on the Macondo anniversary. In this week’s Regulation & Environment column from Oilgram News, Gary Gentile reviews the industry’s record on safety, and efforts to...
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BP’s past casts a long shadow over its future in the US
Documents filed as part of a legal battle between BP and the US Environmental Protection Agency reveal just how far apart the two are when it comes to restoring BP’s ability to compete for lucrative...
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Champagne, leaky tires and teen acne: the many metaphors of the BP oil spill...
During the second phase of the BP trial now underway in US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans, the gushing stream of crude from the blown-out Macondo well in 2010 has...
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The wild Mary Sudik oil well was the Macondo of her day
On the fourth anniversary of the Macondo oil spill on April 20, 2010, it’s fitting to recall another historic out-of-control well in the early days of the oil patch: Oklahoma’s Wild Mary Sudik. The...
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BOEM chief leaves an agency much changed since he arrived
When Tommy Beaudreau arrived at the US Interior Department to oversee the reorganization of the Minerals Management Service in the wake of the Macondo disaster, he found an agency more focused on...
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On US oil exports, offshore safety, crude-by-rail, how long will the...
It has become a routine in Washington to explain the government’s inability to react to changes in the marketplace by blaming the swift pace of technological change. The latest such admission came last...
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Regulation & Environment: Reading into the big BP Macondo decision
Gary Gentile, in this week’s Oilgram News Column Regulation & Environment, looked at the lengthy decision by a federal judge in the big civil action surrounding the Deepwater Horizon blowout....
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Deepwater Horizon ripples help sink US Arctic drilling: Regulation and...
In this week’s Oilgram News, Regulation and Environment, Gary Gentile looks at the after-effects of Deepwater Horizon on offshore production elsewhere and has a bonus segment about the future of the...
View ArticleBP, a company with a split personality, looks to the future: Fuel for Thought
It is six years since a prominent newspaper dubbed BP’s chief executive the “most hated and clueless man in America” and in that time the company has paid $62 billion in fines and compensation for its...
View ArticleUS Chemical Safety Board faces elimination under Trump: Fuel for Thought
US President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the US Chemical Safety Board, a somewhat obscure agency that has angered so many groups over the years that no one is likely to leap to its defense....
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