As BP closes in on permanently sealing its crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico, it says it has learned from the disaster and will share that hard-fought knowledge with other oil companies and authorities around the world.
CNN's David Mattingly finds Louisiana marshes on a rapid rebound.
With BP's ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico apparently securely capped, the sparseness of visible slicks is prompting the question, "Has the Gulf cleanup turned the corner?"
Tests relating to the recently recapped oil well in the Gulf of Mexico have detected a "seep a distance from the well," Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said in a letter to a BP official.
CNN's David Mattingly reports that BP extends pressure test and Kenneth Feinberg talks about compensation claims.
BP says it has placed a new containment cap on its crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico that's been gushing oil since an explosion and fire April 20.
BP's stock continued to run higher Monday, rising more than 6% in early trading, after reports that the company or some of its assets may be sold off.
Exposure to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has resulted in 162 cases of illnesses reported to the Louisiana state health department, according to a report released Monday. Of those cases, 128 involved workers on oil rigs or individuals involved in the oil spill cleanup efforts, the report said.
Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen explains how Tropical Storm Alex could impact oil cleanup and recovery efforts.
One of two relief wells being drilled in an attempt to kill BP's runaway oil well below the Gulf of Mexico is within 20 feet horizontally of it, a company executive said Monday.
Mississippi fisherman and beachgoers finally see the consequences of the Gulf oil disaster. WLOS reports.
Federal authorities have ordered BP to get more aggressive with its plans to recover thousands of barrels of oil spewing from a broken well into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a letter made public Saturday.
Federal authorities have ordered BP to get more aggressive with its plans to recover thousands of barrels of oil spewing from a broken well into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a letter made public Saturday.
BP denied Wednesday that it has ordered cleanup workers not to talk to reporters.
Federal authorities have given BP until Friday to devise contingency plans for the continued collection of gushing oil into a containment cap in the event of an operational failure or severe weather.
BP's senior vice president takes CNN's Brian Todd inside its command center.
In response to a growing perception that filing a claim for compensation from BP is more trouble than it's worth, officials in Alabama announced a program Tuesday to help workers affected by the oil spill get the money they're entitled to.
A new flow of oil emerged from BP's damaged undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday evening after a remote-controlled submarine successfully cut into the well's riser pipe.
Underwater video shows a blade cutting through the riser pipe as part of the 'cut and cap' process to cap the oil leak.
Three attempts to pump mud and 16 tries to stuff solid material into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well failed to stop the flow, top BP executives said Saturday, and engineers and executives with the oil giant have decided to "move on to the next option."
President Obama visits Grand Isle, Louisiana, but some locals are not happy with his trip. CNN's Ed Henry reports.
Pres. Obama speaks about the oil spill during his visit to Grand Isle, Louisiana.
BP resumed pumping heavyweight drilling mud Friday in its attempt to cap a breached oil well in what the company's top executive described as an "environmental catastrophe."
Were beach workers in Grand Isle hired simply for President Obama's visit? WWL looks at the controversy.
An independent contractor supplying workers to clean up an oil spill on the Gulf Coast denied Saturday that his company sent more workers to Grand Isle, Louisiana, on Friday just because President Obama was visiting.
A Gulf Coast official accused BP of shipping workers into Grand Isle, Louisiana, for President Barack Obama's visit to the oil-stricken area Friday and sending them away once the president left the region.
A Louisiana official says BP workers brought in to help in the oil cleanup left immediately after Pres. Obama's visit.
Several restaurant owners and suppliers have filed a lawsuit to collect damages from BP. WWL reports.
A "top kill" method intended to stop the runaway flow of oil in the Gulf of Mexico will likely be tried early next week, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said Friday.
CNN's David Mattingly and his team tour the oil spill only to find that it's thicker than expected in the wetlands.
BP said Wednesday that efforts to contain and clean up oil gushing from a ruptured pipe in the Gulf of Mexico have made a "measurable difference" even as Louisiana's governor announced that thick, heavy oil has begun polluting the state's wetlands and estuaries.
President Obama will sign an executive order establishing a presidential commission to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, an administration official said Monday.
Oil company BP says it has resumed pumping oil to a ship on the surface after a weekend setback that halted efforts to siphon off the crude spewing from a damaged well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
CNN's Brian Todd fires tough questions at one of BP's top executives who is in charge of the spill response.
A mechanical problem prevented BP from inserting a tube into a ruptured pipe that would help siphon off oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, BP official Doug Suttles said Saturday.
Pres. Barack Obama says he does not appreciate oil executives blaming each other for the Gulf Coast spill.
BP will try again within the next day to cap a well that has gushed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the energy company said Friday.
An oyster processing plant has nearly shut down because of the Gulf Coast oil slick. CNN's Reynolds Wolf reports.
President Obama on Wednesday proposed a package of measures that would provide at least $58 million in additional funding for oil spill relief efforts and raise the tax that oil companies pay to maintain an emergency fund.
CNN's David Mattingly reports that the first attempt to cap the oil leak has failed.
BP working on 'parallel paths' to stop oil gush, company says By the CNN Wire Staff
BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles gives an update about the company's effort to combat oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
A wind shift could push more oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon gusher into the Mississippi Delta and areas west of the river, which is "bad news for Louisiana," Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday afternoon.
CNN's Brooke Baldwin updates the progress in sealing a containment dome over the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
The effort to place a massive containment dome over a gushing underwater wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico was dealt a setback when a large volume of hydrates -- icelike crystals formed when gas combines with water -- accumulated inside the vessel, a BP official said Saturday.
The effort to place a massive containment dome over a gushing underwater wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico was dealt a setback when a large volume of hydrates -- icelike crystals that form when gas combines with water -- accumulated inside the vessel, a BP official said Saturday.
Companies involved in the sinking of the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon made "some very major mistakes," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Thursday after meeting with executives from the oil company BP.
CNN's John Roberts talks to a BP official about clean-up and containment efforts in the Gulf Coast oil spill.
A four-story containment vessel left Port Fourchon, Louisiana, on a barge Wednesday en route to the Gulf of Mexico's gushing oil well, where BP will attempt to lower the container onto a ruptured deep-water pipe in an unprecedented operation.
The edges of the massive Gulf Coast oil slick grazed the barrier islands off Louisiana's Chandeleur and Breton sounds Tuesday as the company responsible for cleaning up the spill faced tough questions from members of Congress.
CNN's Patrick Oppmann follows a family helping to protect a favorite beach from the oil slick.
It sounds like a Hollywood movie. An impending disaster -- think the disabled spacecraft in "Apollo 13" or the asteroid hurtling toward Earth in "Armageddon" -- prompts a daring intervention by engineers to save the day.
CNN's Brian Todd has the latest on the "pollution containment chamber" that may stop the oil spill.
Historian Douglas Brinkley discusses the impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
HLN's Richard Lui is on the Alabama shore, where residents are increasingly anxious about the arriving oil slick.
The federal government is heightening the pressure on BP, pushing the oil company to do more to stop well leaks gushing thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and to beef up its response to the potential environmental impact on the coast.
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