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In a statement sent to Rigzone by the BP team on Monday, BP announced the award of a rig contract to Valaris for the DS-12 deepwater drillship to drill five wells in the Mediterranean. The statement ...

WASHINGTON - The BP oil rig explosion and spill wasn't about anyone purposely trading money for safety, investigators on a special presidential commission said Monday. Instead it was more about ...

It’s been awhile since the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 men and kicked off the British Petroleum oil spill, sending barrels of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Now it seems it’s been ...

A new report from an independent scientific panel says BP and its contractors missed and ignored key warning signs Add as a preferred source on Google Washington: A new report from an independent ...

NEW ORLEANS - A retired BP employee who supervised drilling operations on the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico testified Wednesday that he never felt pressure to sacrifice safety to save money, ...

Deepwater Horizon tells the real story of the people who survived the 2010 oil rig explosion. The 2016 biographical disaster movie stars Mark Wahlberg as the real-life oil rig technician Mike Williams ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Transocean employee who served as chief mate on the Deepwater Horizon testified Monday that he believes the rig crew’s emergency training saved lives following the 2010 explosion ...

Offshore driller Rowan will be paid $175 million by supermajor BP as part of a settlement over the 1999 cancellation by Amoco UK of a contract to use jack-up rig Rowan Gorilla V. BP along with its ...