BP says it plans to publish the results tomorrow of its own investigation into the Deepwater Horizon accident in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Aberdeen-headquartered John Wood Group's US subsidiary Mustang Engineering has won a major offshore design deal.

BP says is has now removed the failed Blow Out Preventer from the Deepwater Horizon on the Macondo oil well in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico.

Transocean, the owner of Deepwater Horizon, has accused BP of hiding key information about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Close to 80 per cent of the leaked oil remains in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a group of scientists.

BP says no oil is now flowing from the Macondo well after a successful kill operation which was completed.

Gulf of Mexico operator ATP said it has been hit by US $8.7 million of additional expenses after being forced to shut down drilling operations in the US Gulf of Mexico after BP's Macondo oil spill.

BP says it has now paid out more than US $300 million to claimants affected by the Macondo well oil spill in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Driller Transocean reported net come of US $720 million for the second quarter this year on revenue of $2.505 Bn.

Updating progress on capping the deepwater Macondo MC252 oil well in the US Gulf of Mexico BP says it has now received a green light to go ahead with cementing operations to kill the well.

BP announces that the attempt to seal the well appears to have succeeded.

4.9 million barrels has leaked from BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico. This makes it the world's largest spill, according to scientists.

BP has delayed the static kill in the Gulf of Mexico. The company reports that the work will start earliest Tuesday local time.

BP has put a US $32 Bn price tag on the cost of responding to the US Gulf of Mexico oil spill so far.

Drilling contractor Ensco is looking at alternative ways to redeploy its rigs in the US Gulf of Mexico to ensure they can keep working.

Reports from the US last night said that the oil flow from BP's Macondo well in the US Gulf of Mexico has finally stopped.

BP's latest device to tackle the Macondo oil spill is a capping stack which has been installed to try and stop the oil flow.

More than 25,000 barrels of oil were either collected or flared from the leaking Macondo wellhead in the US Gulf of Mexico BP said today.

One of the drilling contractors hit by the deepwater drilling moratorium in the US Gulf of Mexico after the oil spill has reached a financial agreement to put one of its rigs on standby while the ban remains.

BP said today it has reinstalled the Lower Marine Riser Package on the leaking Macondo Blowout Preventer in the US Gulf of Mexico as it continues efforts to contain the oil gushing out of the deepwater hole.

Collection of oil spewing out of the damaged wellhead at the deepwater Macondo well in the US Gulf of Mexico has been temporarily halted via Lower Marine Riser Cap said BP after was seen leaking on board the Discoverer Enterprise.

Anadarko Petroleum, a partner with BP in the Macondo well oil spill in the US Gulf of Mexico, has reacted to a downgrading of its debt rating by the influential Moody's Investor Services in the US and criticised the move by Moody's as too early.

BP said it has now paid out $100 million in oil spill compensation claims and has issued 31,000 settlement cheques in the last seven weeks.

Offshore transport specialist Dockwise has mobilised its large transport ship Mighty Servant 3 to the US Gulf of Mexico to assist with the clean-up from the oil spill there.

BP has spelled out the level of payments it is initially prepared to make in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico Macondo oil spill which has triggered the worst environmental disaster the  US has ever seen.

Statoil has declared force majeure on an AP Moller rig which is has on contact working in the US Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the BP Macondo oil spill.

Oil recovery operations have resumed on board the Discoverer Enterprise drillship in the US Gulf of Mexico after it was hit by lightning.

Updating its response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill BP said today it has collected 7,720 barrels of oil and flared another 16.9 Mmcf/d of natural gas in the first 12 hours of 13 June from midnight to 12 noon, using the Lower Marine Riser Cap system installed previously.