Having trouble navigating the potential courtroom crunch surrounding the mess in the Gulf of Mexico? Roger Parloff has put …
Gulf Coast Oil Spill
Quotes: BP on the Size of the Gulf Oil Spill
“There’s just no way to measure it,”
— KENT WELLS, BP senior vice president, on the size of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists raised concerns Friday that the size of the oil slick has been understated, …
BP Will Try Smaller Containment Dome in Gulf
After the failure of British Petroleum’s containment dome to stop the undersea oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company says it will attempt to install a second, smaller dome over the main leak point nearly a mile beneath the surface.