HOUSTON -- Life-threatening safety violations continue to plague a Texas City BP refinery, leaving it susceptible to another major accident like the one in 2005 that killed 15 people, according to a ...

(Adds details) By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, June 6 (Reuters) - A contract worker was electrocuted Tuesday while working on an idled residual hydrotreater at BP Plc's <BP.L> giant refinery in Texas City, ...

Jeanne Pascal turned on her TV April 21 to see a towering spindle of black smoke slithering into the sky from an oil platform on the oceanic expanse of the Gulf of Mexico. For hours she sat, ...

WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers pilloried the boss of the company that caused the Gulf calamity Thursday as BP chief executive Tony Hayward said he was out of the loop on decisions at the well and asserted, ...

He later retracted his apologies to BP, then apologized anew — this time for calling the fund a "shakedown." ''BP should bear the full financial responsibility for the accident," he said, and "fully ...

“The unusual rapid-fire requests to modify permits reveal that BP was tweaking a crucial aspect of the well’s design up until its final days.” “One of the design decisions outlined in the revised ...