An internal investigation released by BP on Wednesday concluded that a series of mechanical and human failures by its own crews and its contractors led to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

BP's report into the Deepwater disaster realises all our worst fears about the oil industryThe explosion of the Deepwater oil rig this April killed 11 people, injured 17 more, led to the spilling of 5m gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, caused massive environmental pollution and caused yet another faultline in US-UK relations. It also forced the exit of Tony Hayward as boss of BP, and prompted the oil giant to set up a £13bn compensation fun
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The blowout on the Deepwater Horizon rig undermined Big Oil's 'safety first' mantra ? BP's report demolishes itIt is not often we are given a very public ? and highly critical ? insight into an industry as private as oil. This is a sector that is used to secrecy, and one before which many governments, never mind members of the public, are forced to bend the knee.Big Oil is used to waving away questions about the way it operates with the assuring
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eldavojohn writes "News is out of BP's report on the gulf spill that shifts some of the blame on to other companies like Transocean that worked with BP in erecting the Deepwater Horizon rig. If you were affected by the spill, you might find the video, executive summary and 193 page report an interesting read. The summary outlines six or seven major failures in safety and engineering that all built up to the deaths of eleven workers and widespread
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BP releases its report into the oil spill which followed the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. Follow live coverage here1.50pm: Damian Carrington emails: "Reaction to the BP report is starting to flow, and it's not going to be pretty." This is from Jim Footner, head of Greenpeace's energy campaign."This report is a sorry catalogue of the gaffes and failures behind the Deepwater Horizon disaster. And it's highly likely that a trul
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Emergency teams with helicopters rescued 34 workers Wednesday from an oil drilling platform that was leaning dangerously in the East China Sea after a storm, and searched for two others still missing, officials said.

'My father said it was all so dangerous,' says Franklin Lobos's daughterFranklin Lobos was a legend of Chilean football. Dubbed el Mortero Magico (the magic mortar) for his thunderous long-distance free-kicks, the midfielder was a stalwart of first division side Cobresal throughout the 1980s. Asked for his secret, Lobos explained simply: "I have a different way of kicking the ball."Yet even during those days as a professional footballer, Lobos
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Oil chiefs insist that Britain's oil rig safety regime in the North Sea does not need to be overhauledThe UK head of Transocean, the operator of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, has clashed angrily with MPs in the first British hearing into what lessons can be learned from the disaster.Paul King, who is in charge of the drilling rig operator's sizeable North Sea operations, added that he would not let his son work for Transocean i...
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Industry experts fear that many of Obama's changes in wake of Gulf oil spill will be no more than cosmeticOil industry executives in the US call the Gulf of Mexico the "wild wild west", a place where regulations are rarely enforced and offshore operators can do what they want. Barack Obama has promised to tighten regulations to prevent a repeat of the Gulf disaster but many within the industry are sceptical that much will really change.A failure
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Head of Transocean, which operated destroyed Deepwater Horizon oil rig, to be asked about safety and deepwater drillingBritish politicians will challenge the UK head of Transocean, the operator of the destroyed Deepwater Horizon rig, tomorrow over whether the Gulf of Mexico disaster could be repeated in the North Sea.In the first televised hearing of an investigation by MPs into what lessons can be learnt from the disaster, Paul King, Transocean'...
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Counsellors and lawyers are busier than seafarers in Louisiana, as some experts warn that fishing industry will never recoverHigh tide, and the remains of a late summer storm, and it is hard to tell on this strip of land between the Mississippi and the marsh where land ends and water begins. It was here ? in the most southerly reaches of Louisiana on terrain that is slowly sliding into the sea ? that oil from BP's Macondo well first started comin
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Rescue officials reported Monday they had to temporarily stop one of two drilling operations to reach 33 men trapped for more than a month inside a Chilean mine.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is making it clear that he's in no hurry to open the door to new exploratory oil and gas drilling in the offshore Arctic -- not, he said, until more is known about the potential pitfalls.

? ExxonMobil discussed politics of BP takeover with the White House? BP's value had once dropped by more than $100bn, since 20 April BP said today that it was a fortnight away from finally sealing the rogue well in the Gulf of Mexico ? potentially triggering bids from rivals for a company whose market value has been dramatically eroded since the April blowout.BP, which also announced that the clean-up bill has hit $8bn (£5bn), has been viewed as
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Love rivalries and fan websites erupt as miners become focus of media fascination while rescue drilling gets under wayAs rescue workers begin the estimated three-month process of drilling down 700 metres to save the 33 miners trapped underground in Chile, the men themselves have become celebrities.After nearly a month underground, the 32 Chileans and one Bolivian stuck in a hole at the bottom of a collapsed mine shaft have become the world's favo...
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Oil giant hopes ruptured oil well in Gulf of Mexico will be sealed by mid-September, with clean-up bill now at $8bnBP said today it is a fortnight away from sealing the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico for good, as it revealed that the bill for containing and cleaning up the oil spill ? the largest in American history ? has reached $8bn.Depending on the weather, the oil giant hopes to seal the well for good in mid-September. Since 15 July,
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An oil- and gas-production platform in the Gulf of Mexico caught fire Thursday, adding to the political debate over the safety of offshore wells.

With a 9.6 percent unemployment rate overall in the United States and unemployment rates showing an uptick in states on the Gulf of Mexico that allow offshore oil drilling, one has to wonder what the Obama administration is thinking its Draconian wide-sweeping moratorium halting deepwater drilling in the Gulf after the BP oil spill. While environmentalists are using today's explosion on a oil production platform in the Gulf to support a drilling...
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