BP denies misleading Texas environmental regulator
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Oil giant BP Plc has denied misleading a   U.S. environmental regulator about having installed safety   equipment at its Texas City refinery that investigators believe   would have reduced the likelihood of a fatal explosion last   year.
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The former head of pipeline-corrosion monitoring for BP in Alaska refused to testify under oath Thursday as outraged lawmakers grilled company officials over the causes of a massive oil spill earlier this year.
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Invoking executive privilege, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday refused to provide lawmakers with a full explanation of why it rejected California's greenhouse gas regulations.
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A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday dismissed damage claims filed by Spain against an organization that inspects and certifies ships in connection with one of the world's largest oil spills in the past decade.
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BP Plc, the world&#39;s second-largest publicly traded oil company, said oil and gas production rose 11 percent in the third quarter, less than analysts expected, as storms in the US Gulf of Mexico restrained growth.
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The head of the House Energy and   Commerce Committee chided BP Plc. BP.L executives on Thursday   for overlooking corrosion that threatened to shut down the   giant Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, calling the UK-based   energy giant's policies "as rusty as its pipelines."
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British energy giant BP, already under fire for an oil spill in Alaska, faced a new spill in California but said it had &quot;no significant impact on the environment.&quot;
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - BP Plc  has submitted a revised plan for preventing and responding to spills at the Prudhoe Bay oil field following pipeline corrosion problems and oil spills earlier this year, a state official said on Monday.
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Tobacco industry lawyers  acknowledged in federal court on Wednesday that some companies  may have done some things wrong in the past, but they denied  government allegations the industry engaged in a conspiracy to  mislead the public about the dangers of smoking.
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A US oil trader launches a civil lawsuit against BP, alleging it manipulated oil prices in the US in 2003 and 2004.
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By Tom Incantalupo, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 9--Another federal government agency is criticizing as flawed a study by federal energy regulators that concluded the controversial Broadwater Energy liquid natural gas terminal could be built with minimal environmental impact.
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BP avoids battering as poor results are better than Hayward's bleak warning suggests and market looks beyond 2007.
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BP BP.L told U.S. lawmakers on   Thursday that it could restart its giant oil field in Alaska by   the end of October after rusty pipelines forced part of the   field shut last month, though a former senior BP manager in   Alaska refused to testify about the pipeline corrosion.
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Delays to the restart of a crude unit at BP Plc's  Texas City, Texas, refinery will cause the major to miss its goal of raising crude oil processing rates at the refinery to 400,000 barrels per day by the end of 2007, a source familiar with refinery operations said Monday.
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The head of the House Energy and  Commerce Committee chided BP Plc. executives on Thursday for  overlooking corrosion that threatened to shut down the giant  Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, calling the UK-based energy  giant's policies "as rusty as its pipelines."
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A British scientific group said that Exxon Mobil is financing groups that misinform the public about climate issues.
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Oil major BP Plc  is studying  ways to avoid a complete shutdown of its Prudhoe Bay oil field  in Alaska by using other pipelines to bypass the oil transit  pipelines it is shutting down following the discovery of  significant corrosion on one transit line over the weekend, a  BP Alaska spokesman said.