President Obama will speak after returning from his fourth trip to the Gulf region since the April 20 explosion and fire, which killed 11 workers and ruptured a deep-sea oil well.

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It was also involved in the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, which cut its stock price more than in half.

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Halliburton ( HAL) is suing BP ( BP) for negligent misrepresentation, business disparagement and defamation related to the April 2010 Macondo well explosion, in a suit filed in state court in Texas.

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Before she ruled, the judge heard an apology from a BP executive and emotional testimony from relatives of the 11 workers who died when BP's blown-out Macondo well triggered an explosion on the rig and started the spill.

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