oil spill

Officials with Entergy say that 20,000 gallons of oil leak in Bayou Bienvenue.

The Coast Guard says it is investigating the cause and impact of a small oil spill in a Louisiana marsh.

On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The resulting oil spill was the largest in US history. A settlement was reportedly reached with the Mexican government earlier this year...

An oil spill in the near Venice Louisiana is being monitored by the United States Coast Guard.

The Louisiana coastline has made a better than expected recovery from the Deep Water Horizon disaster. The latest findings show many coastal areas have already returned pre-spill conditions.

Litigation, and criminal cases have been pending for more than five years in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Charges have been dropped in the case of two rig supervisors.

A former BP engineer avoided prison by pleading to a reduced charge in connection with his role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Kurt Mix was charged with obstructing an investigation into the disaster by deleting a string of text messages. He faced a potential 20 year prison sentence.

Five years ago today, the worst oil spill in US history claimed the lives of 11 workers, and poured an estimated 200 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. They had, ironically, been presented with a safety award earlier in the day.

BP has officially asked the United States Supreme court to hear an appeal pertaining to a 2012 settlement stemming from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The company filed a writ of certiorari petition on Friday.

The oil giant has filed a motion in US District Court seeking recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars that have already been paid to claimants.

BP has lost a major court fight over claim payments resulting from the 2010 blowout of its Macondo well off the Louisiana coast. We reported in March, the oil giant was trying to have a 2012 settlement, which the company had agreed to, thrown out.

Nearly four years after BP's Macondo well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil giant is still fighting the payment of claims resulting from the spill.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Halliburton Energy Services and Justice Department prosecutors have urged a federal judge to approve a plea deal that calls for the Houston-based company to pay a $200,000 fine for destroying evidence after BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

“BP needs to stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars on their public relations campaign telling us how great they are and start proving it by addressing their Clean Water Act and Natural Resources Damage liabilities now." -Bobby Jindal

Halliburton has agreed to pay $55 million dollars to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.The company has also agreed to pay a maximum statutory fine of $500,000. Halliburton will accept three years of probation and cooperate in the government’s ongoing criminal investigation.

The settlement is a multi-billion dollar program.

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of California at Santa Barbara have published recent studies indicating the oil is not seeping from the sealed-off Macondo well.

"Seems like this whole exercise is a belt-and-suspenders operation...There's no subtlety here. You're trying to get this issue to the 5th Circuit." - U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier

BP contends that the claims administrator made decisions earlier this year that expose the company to fictitious losses outside the intended terms of the settlement.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has refused to overturn a ruling that compels a BP rig supervisor to submit to a medical exam.