BP confirms global safety review after Texas City blast
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Energy behemoth BP has confirmed that it will overhaul its worldwide operations to improve safety in the wake of last year's deadly Texas City refinery explosion.
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Oil major BP will pay $373 million to settle U.S. charges stemming from a deadly Texas refinery explosion and an Alaska oil spill, as well as allegations it manipulated propane markets, the government said on Thursday.
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LONDON - BP PLC agreed to pay $373 million to resolve charges related to a fatal refinery explosion, market manipulation, and an oil pipeline leak, as Europe's second-largest oil company tries to recover from lapses that dented its share price and image.
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BP PLC is facing a growing federal investigation into possible criminal environmental and safety violations at its Texas refinery where a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers, lawyers suing the firm said.
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PORTLAND, Maine  - BP Plc  slowed production at its oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, after a mechanical glitch, the company said in a filing with state environmental regulators on Saturday.
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HOUSTON, Dec. 12  /PRNewswire/ -- Victims of the explosions and fires that ripped through the Formosa Plastics plastic resins and petrochemical manufacturing plant at Point Comfort, Texas, on October 6, 2005 filed suit in the County Court of Law, Calhoun County, Texas on December 1, 2006.
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A chemical from rocket fuel that has seeped into drinking-water supplies nationwide is safe at higher doses than federal environmental officials had concluded, according to a report released Monday.
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A probe into BP PLC's trading and safety standards is expected to come closer to resolution Thursday when the US Justice Department seeks indictments against up to four former of the company's traders, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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The Department of Transportation said  it is investigating allegations by some workers that two safety  valves at BP PLC's  oil field in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska,  were not working at the time of a large oil leak in March, the  Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
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BP Plc, Europe&#39;s largest oil company, said it evacuated 500 non-essential workers from offshore rigs near Trinidad and Tobago as Hurricane Ivan approached the Caribbean country.
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Oil major BP on Thursday agreed to pay $373 million to settle U.S. charges stemming from a deadly Texas refinery explosion, an Alaska oil spill and allegations it manipulated the propane market.
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The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday proposed to fine BP Plc  $92,000 for safety violations at a Texas City refinery where 15 workers died in a 2005 explosion and fire.
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VICKSBURG, Miss. - A barge carrying crude oil erupted into flames and drifted about 12 miles down the Mississippi River Thursday night after striking a railroad bridge.  A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said there were no injuries and no reports of crewmen in the water after the 9 p.m.
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The crew of a Union Pacific freight train probably was asleep when it collided with another train in Texas two years ago, releasing a plume of chlorine gas that killed three people, the National Transportation Safety Board reported Thursday.
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MOSCOW. June 20 (Interfax) - Russian and Lithuanian experts have acknowledged the ecological safety of the D-6 oil platform at the Kravtsovskoye field, which is being developed by Lukoil- Kaliningradmorneft.
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A supervisor at BP Plc's Texas City, Texas, refinery died on Monday of head injuries suffered when a heavy metal lid blew off a unit during a restart, his family's lawyer and BP said on Tuesday.
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A sheriff's dispatcher says an explosion rocked an oil refinery in western Texas