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The first phase of the civil trial against BP, Transocean and Halliburton may have finished a month earlier than expected, but there’s still a long legal road ahead for the three companies. Barring a settlement, the trial won’t be decided until well into 2014, and BP will soon be back in courtrooms on other matters related to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The center of all this legal action is New Orleans, where environmental activists, politicians and other local figures gathered …

Oil giant BP rested its case today in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill trial, just days before the third anniversary of the accident that killed 11 workers and polluted the Gulf of Mexico with millions of barrels of oil. Testimony is over for the first phase of the trial, but it will be months before even a partial verdict is announced. In lieu of traditional closing arguments, parties in the trial will submit written statements to U.S. District Judge Carl …

A wells team leader for oil giant BP testified today that he was “frustrated” by his superiors’ response to the wishes of the crew aboard the Deepwater Horizon, which exploded and sank after a 2010 blowout that fouled the Gulf of Mexico with millions of barrels of oil. John Guide, an onshore executive who provided oversight for the well site leaders on the rig, testified that his job “was to make [the rig crew’s] job easier, and I didn’t think …

An executive with oil giant BP steadfastly defended the company’s commitment to safety while testifying today in the civil trial over the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. BP’s Neil Shaw delivered testimony that grew combative at times under questioning by plaintiffs’ attorney Walter Leger, who was repeatedly asked to give Shaw time to explain his answers without interruption. “You agree a fundamental tenet of process safety is that your line personnel leadership — for example, a well team leader …

An executive for oil giant BP testified today that he personally worked to improve the company’s safety culture in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers and dumped millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Neil Shaw, who was BP’s head of global projects until 2009, testified about an internal BP memo that he wrote in the hopes that its message would be “cascaded through the organization.” “Each and …