Looking at crucial steps BP has taken in crisis management since the oil rig explosion and fire, you see a more mixed story.
And the proceedings will necessarily slog through all the gory details of the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, forcing those of us who follow the oil industry to suffer flashbacks of the horrific explosion, oil-soaked beaches and those endless hours keeping half an eye on the submarine video feed of oil gushing from the Macondo well.
L-shaped table in an office in Lagos, discussing a story on that morning's front page about an oil-pipe explosion.
What crews are dealing with is an oil spill from the explosion that continues to grow in the Gulf of Mexico.
The extend to which BP had worked to establish a positive reputation likely made the reaction to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill even harsher.
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The Deep Water Horizon explosion and oil spill off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 demonstrated how little improvement in oil cleanup technology had been made since the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989.
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The disaster began with an April 20 explosion aboard the oil rig Deepwater Horizon that left 11 men dead.
The offshore drilling business has been in the headlines since the April 20th Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill.
At least two workers have died in an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, and at least four others are injured.
Shale gas and oil has led to an explosion of onshore activity in the U.S. and around the world as producer use new technologies to tap resources at an economical cost.
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After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill which started with an explosion on April 20, many throughout the industry are trying to assign blame.
An explosion at a BP oil refinery in Texas in 2005 that killed 15 workers, a series of other safety concerns and allegations that the company fixed propane prices have battered its reputation in America.
The debate on 6 October 2010 was being held to investigate safety measures of oil drilling, following the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
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This disrupted Azerbaijan's oil exports, already hit by an explosion earlier this month in the Turkish part of the pipeline from Baku to Ceyhan, in Turkey.
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The Obama administration is looking for ways to improve the regulation of offshore drilling in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, which stemmed from an explosion in April on the Deepwater Horizon rig, operated by BP.
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The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, owned by Transocean and operated by BP, cost the lives of 11 men and caused the leaking of about 4.9 million barrels of oil into the waters of the Gulf.
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Bayou Perot was the scene of an explosion and fire on a specialized oil rig in December 2010 in which three men were injured.
In the last year alone, 29 people died in a New Zealand coal mine, 11 on a Gulf oil rig and 27 in a Mexican pipeline explosion.
Much of the oil has dissipated from the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that haunted the Gulf of Mexico last year, but one of the worst man-made disasters in US history is still taking its toll on tourism to the region.
However, Transocean Vice President Adrian Rose has said its oil rig had no indication of problems before the explosion.
Rescue work after a deadly explosion at the headquarters of the Mexican oil company Pemex entered its final and most dangerous phase, the attorney general has said.
By now, everyone realizes the tremendous environmental and economic disaster that has become of the accidental explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig five weeks ago.
The Department of Justice has filed a scathing brief accusing BP of gross negligence in the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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But critics have accused the firm of neglecting maintenance as it funnels oil revenue into government social programmes, especially after an explosion in August at the Amuay refinery, the country's largest, in which 42 people were killed.
Production of crude oil and natural gas is booming on the back of the explosion of the fracking industry.
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Eleven people died in the initial Deepwater Horizon explosion, which then caused the biggest ever offshore oil spill, in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mexico City (CNN) -- An explosion rocked the offices of Mexico's state oil company Thursday, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens more, the country's interior minister said.
On July 10th, up to 250 people were killed, and many more badly burned, at Adeje near Warri in southern Nigeria, when oil leaking from a damaged pipeline caught alight, causing an explosion that engulfed in fire an area four kilometres (2.5 miles) across.
This is a disaster that has been spewing a projected 210, 000 gallons oil into the waters off the Gulf coast each day since the explosion happened.
Eleven people were killed, including nine Transocean employees, in the April 20 explosion and collapse of the rig, which gushed crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 86 days.
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