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BP Plc remains at risk for billions of dollars in fines and legal costs even after a U.S. commission said safety wasn’t sacrificed for profit in the weeks and days leading up to the worst U.S. offshore oil spill

British oil giant BP said Monday it had reached agreement to sell four fields in deepwater Gulf of Mexicdo to Japan's Marubeni Corp for 650 million U.S. dollars

BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill meant it missed out on an industry-wide trend of higher profits and rising production in the third quarter, according to a Reuters poll

BP is looking to reduce the number of operatorships it holds in the Gulf of Mexico as part of a move to cut its capital spending and rebalance its portfolio of assets in the wake of the Macondo oil spill.

The Obama administration on Tuesday ordered federal offshore-oil regulators to recuse themselves from official actions involving companies that employ their family members or close friends. It also placed new restrictions on regulators' oversight of companies they once worked for.

The Russian government will welcome BP CEO Tony Hayward to any new post in the Russian-British TNK-BP joint venture, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said on Wednesday.

Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon, said Monday it had addressed 90 per cent of recommendations made in a BP audit about systems and equipment in need of upgrade or enhancement on the rig a month before it exploded and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP PLC said Saturday that it has begun an attempt to remove the drilling pipe from the ruptured well that unleashed the Deepwater Horizon spill.

BP likely won't put the final plug in its blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well until September to allow replacement of a critical piece of seabed equipment, the top U.S. oil spill official said Thursday.

Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE:DVN) today announced that it has completed the sale of its ACG field located offshore Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea to BP for $2 billion. Devon’s current production from the ACG field is approximately 17 thousand barrels of oil per day.

The government vowed on Sunday that operations to completely clean up BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill and compensate those affected would not slacken off despite the success in halting the leak.

Senate Democrats on Thursday proposed repealing a tax break for some major oil companies, including BP Plc, effective December 31.

BP said Thursday afternoon that the company finished pouring cement into its blown-out Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

 BP PLC claimed a big victory in its efforts to kill its blown-out oil well, fueling optimism that the three-month oil drama in the Gulf of Mexico was finally entering its closing stages.

 BP pumped heavy drilling mud into its blown-out Gulf of Mexico well on Tuesday in a "static kill" operation it hopes will help permanently plug the world's worst accidental marine oil spill.

BP Plc was still hoping to attempt the first of two operations to permanently plug its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well on Tuesday despite the technical delay of a crucial test.

The Coast Guard dispatched emergency teams Tuesday after a boat crashed into an oil well off the coast of New Orleans, reportedly sending crude spewing some 20 feet into the air.

A storm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to plug the ruptured oil well to a near standstill Wednesday just as BP was getting tantalizingly close to going in for the kill.

Russian-built submersibles would be able to cap the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the captain of one of the vessels has said.

A new emergency federal rule could set the stage for the departure of two of the Pacific Northwest's largest oil-spill-response vessels and five Navy skimmers to battle the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico.