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Judge orders BP to pay $130 million fees to Gulf claims program
2013-08-07 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: BP Plc must pay $130 million to a court-appointed administrator overseeing payments to thousands of people who claimed they were hurt by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday, in a fresh legal setback for the oil company. BP had balked at funding the third-quarter operating budget for the administrator, Louisiana lawyer Patrick Juneau, complaining that his bill contained "excessive costs." But U.S. Magistrate Judge Sally Shushan in New Orleans ruled that it was "unreasonable"...
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Indian Ship Accused of Oil Dumping, Gulf Countries on Alert
2013-08-07 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Bahrain is on high alert following an oil spill in the Arabian Gulf, also called the Persian Gulf, which authorities say was deliberately caused by an Indian ship. The Indian-flagged crude oil tanker Desh Shanti was caught dumping oil near Iranian waters on Tuesday after ignoring official communications from concerned authorities, says a report in the Gulf Daily News. Commissioned in 2004, the Desh Shanti is a 158,030 tonne oil tanker managed by the Shipping Corporation of India, Ltd., a government...
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Stones Field, Gulf of Mexico
2013-08-06 15:25:00| Offshore Technology
Stones field is situated in Block 508 in the Walker Ridge area of the Gulf of Mexico, around 322km off the coast of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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BP Cites New Fraud Allegations in Gulf Spill Settlement
2013-08-06 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: BP said Monday that it has uncovered new allegations of fraud and conflicts of interest inside the settlement program that has awarded billions of dollars to Gulf Coast businesses and residents for damage from the companys 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP attorneys outlined the allegations in a court filing, which asks a federal judge to temporarily suspend settlement payments while former FBI Director Louis Freeh leads an independent investigation of the court-supervised settlement program....
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Hengam Oil and Gas Field, Persian Gulf
2013-08-06 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Hengam oil and gas field lies 70km off Iranian shores near Hormoz Straight in the Persian Gulf.
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