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BP Cuts Riser From Leaking Oil Well; Prepares Cap (Update1)
June 3 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc has sheared away the riser from its leaking Gulf of Mexico well, a precursor to the company’s attempt to lower a cap onto the leak and divert oil to ships on the surface.
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BP Robots to Begin Next Attempt to Curb Record Spill (Update1)
BP Plc will use undersea robots to begin cutting damaged pipe from its leaking oil well off Louisiana as early as today, risking temporarily increasing the flow as it makes another attempt to end the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
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EPA Chief Goes to Louisiana as BP Battles Oil Spill (Update1)
May 23 (Bloomberg) — The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will visit Louisiana today as the government continues to monitor BP Plc’s use of chemicals to try to stem the effect of oil leaking from a Gulf of Mexico well.
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BP Spill Claims Process Inadequate, Fishermen Say (Update1)
May 21 (Bloomberg) — Commercial fishermen and coastal businesses losing income because of BP Plc’s uncontained oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico asked a federal judge to oversee the company’s process for paying interim damage claims.
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BP May Attempt to Plug Oil Leak With Mud Next Week (Update1)
May 21 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc said it may attempt to plug an oil leak 5,000 feet (1,524 meters) below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico next week by stuffing it with drilling mud, a procedure that has never been tried that deep.
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BP Disaster Strands Billions of Barrels of Crude (Update1)
May 13 (Bloomberg) — A regulatory crackdown on offshore oil drilling after the fatal rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico will delay development of U.S. deposits with billions of barrels of crude and may spawn industry job cuts.

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Samsung Targets Seven-Fold Jump in Offshore Orders (Update1)
Samsung Heavy Industries Co. expects offshore-equipment orders to jump almost seven-fold this year as a global economic recovery offsets concerns of project delays in the Gulf of Mexico following an oil spill.

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U.S. Climate Bill Would Expand Oil Drilling, Cut CO2 (Update1)
May 12 (Bloomberg) — Two U.S. senators plan to unveil legislation today to expand offshore oil and natural-gas production and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 17 percent this decade from 2005 levels.

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Transocean’s Biggest Investor Dumps Stock After Blast (Update1)
May 12 (Bloomberg) — Transocean Ltd. ’s largest investor at the end of 2009, Marsico Capital Management LLC, liquidated its entire holding in the world’s biggest oil driller partly because of a fatal rig blast that triggered a Gulf of Mexico spill.

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BP Wants Gulf Oil-Spill Lawsuits Combined in Houston (Update1)
BP Plc asked a panel of judges to combine all lawsuits over economic and environmental damages from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in a federal court in Houston.

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