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BP walks back its role in the gulf oil spill
Shelley DuBois 2010-09-16 11:18As the last tar balls settle on the bottom of the Gulf, it looks like BP may have some extra cash on hand.The company might not have to pay all of the...
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BP after the spill: Bankrupt, bought, or business as usual?
Nin-Hai Tseng 2010-06-12 01:33Despite some progress over the weekend to slow the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP is still struggling to find a meaningful bright spo...
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Three lessons for BP from the Exxon Valdez spill
Shelley DuBois 2010-06-08 07:02Up until the catastrophic Gulf oil spill in April, BP had done a pretty good job of presenting itself as the eco-friendliest big oil company around.Bu...
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BP slashes dividend
Colin Barr 2010-06-18 01:29(FORTUNE) -- BP ended weeks of speculation Wednesday by canceling its quarterly dividend for the rest of this year.Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said ...
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Gulf spill hasn't scared off Lloyd's of London
Nin-Hai Tseng 2010-07-08 12:31From the glamorous to the bizarre to the outright catastrophic, Lloyd's of London has insured against some of the world's most unusual risks: There wa...
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Global Forum: Post oil spill reality check
Nina Easton 2010-07-01 09:33It's June 2050, and the Gulf Oil spill -- still ranking as America's biggest environmental disaster ever -- is four-decade-old news. If you were gradu...
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For BP, post-spill advertising comes at an unknown cost
Shelley DuBois 2010-09-04 12:43The coverage of BP's Deepwater Horizon spill is teaching the typically secretive oil industry something about life in the limelight. Now, the company ...
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BP's "Mission accomplished" moment
Peter Elkind and David Whitford 2010-08-14 02:41From the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the end almost seems to be in sight.We flew out to the scene of the Deepwater Horizon explosion on Saturday mo...
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BP's stock price and the now-or-never trade
Heidi N. Moore 2010-07-09 01:34Religion usually has no place in the financial markets -- except for those who are doing God's work, of course -- but the faith that BP shareholders h...
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BP's murky deep-water future
Ken Stier 2010-05-14 09:44Not only did the virtually impossible happen -- a blowout on the Gulf of Mexico seabed a mile down -- it happened to a top-notch oil team. BP's debacl...