U.S. launches probe into latest BP refinery death
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Investigators are launching a full inquiry into a recent worker death at BP's oil refinery in Texas City, Texas -- the site of a huge blast that killed more than a dozen people in 2005, the Chemical Safety Board said on Thursday.
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U.S. officials are investigating the deaths of two American contractors who were ambushed last month in Iraq after one of them told government officials he was concerned about his financial dealings with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense.
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An investigation is announced into the inquiry into the death of Stuart Lubbock.
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Federal safety investigators headed for  a Texas refinery on Saturday, a day after an explosion and fire  shut the plant operated by leading U.S. refiner Valero Energy  Corp., a government spokesman said.
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At least 18 oil workers were killed when a drilling rig hit an oil platform in stormy weather, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company said Wednesday. Seven workers were still missing.
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BP Plc  said on Tuesday it was working toward settling outstanding safety and health violations at two of its Midwestern refineries.
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The U.S. Justice Department is  expected to seek indictments of up to four former BP Plc   traders as early as Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported  in its online edition on Wednesday.
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Reuters on Monday asked the U.S. military to conduct a full and objective investigation into the killing last week of two of its staff in Iraq after evidence emerged casting doubt on explanations given for their deaths.
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Oil giant BP Plc  said on Friday it settled two more civil lawsuits linked to the 2005 blast at its Texas City, Texas, refinery that killed 15 people.
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U.S. officials have agreed to investigate the death of an 81-year-old Haitian pastor who died last month in the custody of immigration authorities, a U.S. congressman said Thursday.
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The deaths of two black men over a three-day period while they were in police custody will be investigated by federal authorities, officials said Thursday.
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The U.S. Justice Department is expected to seek indictments of up to four former BP Plc  traders as early as Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Wednesday.
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A BP Plc employee died on Monday from injuries sustained in an incident near an ultracracker unit at its oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, the company said on Tuesday.
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The US military Tuesday said it had launched an investigation into the fatal shooting of a wounded man in a Fallujah mosque by a US Marine.
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WASHINGTON -- BP PLC plans to ask federal regulators this week to resume operation of a segment of its pipeline so further tests can be made in hopes of restoring full production on Alaska's North Slope, a company executive told a Senate hearing Tuesday.
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Oil giant BP searched for skilled workers and steel pipe Tuesday to replace badly corroded transit lines that this week forced the shutdown of operations at the largest oil field in the U.S.
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BP Plc BP.L this week will conduct   safety tests and seek government permission to restart part of   the eastern Prudhoe Bay oil field pipeline in Alaska that was   shut due to corrosion, the company told Congress on Tuesday.