The air flotation tanks are where air and chemicals are used to breakdown the oil and solids in wastewater at the BP refinery in Whiting, Indiana, on...
Cleanup crew shovels oil from a beach on May 24, 2010 at Port Fourchon, Louisiana. BP CEO Tony Hayward, who visited the beach, said that BP is doing...
In this satellite image, vessels are seen at the site of the oil spill June 15 in the Gulf of Mexio. DC. BP agreed June 16, 2010 to place $20 billion...
Sand berm built to capture oil from the BP spill is seen in Barataria Bay April 13, 2011 in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. Barataria Bay and its fragile...
Oily absorbent material along with containment booms are seen placed on the beach as efforts to clean the beach from effects of the Deepwater Horizon...
Crude oil lays on the ground in the foreground as workers are seen moving absorbent material as they try to capture some of the oil washing on to...
The BP West Coast Products LLC Carson oil refinery on August 7, 2006 in Carson, California. BP Global is shutting down its Prudhoe Bay oil field...
Greenpeace poster displaying a leaking oil logo is placed on a fence after activists closed a BP petrol station in Camden on July 27, 2010 in London,...
Oil is seen in the water off a beach June 14, 2010 on Grand Isle, Louisiana. The BP spill has been called the largest environmental disaster in...
Contract workers from BP use skimmers to clean oil from a marsh near Pass a Loutre on June 1, 2010 near Venice, Louisiana. Earlier in the day, U.S....
Activists demonstate the effects of an oil spill on wildlife and the clean-up involved at a news conference to mark the first anniversary of the BP...
Sand berm built to capture oil from the BP spill is seen at an oil cleanup site in Barataria Bay April 13, 2011 in Barataria Bay, Louisiana....
Migratory white pelicans take off from the shorline of an island battered by oil from the BP oil spill December 5, 2010 in Barataria Bay, Louisiana....
Executive Vice President of Safety & Operational Risk of BP Mark Bly , and Director of Special Projects of Transocean Bill Ambrose testify during a...
Greenpeace activist stands outside a closed BP petrol station in Camden on July 27, 2010 in London, England. Greenpeace say that they have shut down...
An oil coated containment boom is seen on the beach after it was moved out of place high winds and waves in the past days which brought oil ashore...
Oil cleanup workers pull a bag of thick oil they had scoop up on to their boat as they try to clean up what has washed ashore from the Deepwater...
Oil sheen from the Deepwater Horizon spill is seen in the water off of the barrier islands on June 29, 2010 near Grand Isle, Louisiana. Tropical...
Cleanup crew shovels oil from a beach on May 24, 2010 at Port Fourchon, Louisiana. BP CEO Tony Hayward, who visited the beach, said that BP is doing...
The BP West Coast Products LLC Carson oil refinery on August 7, 2006 in Carson, California. BP Global is shutting down its Prudhoe Bay oil field...
Support ships are seen near the Discoverer Enterprise drilling rig as they continue the effort to recover oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill site...
Dredger is pulled out to sea for work on the oil spill June 15, 2010 in Grand Isle, Louisiana. The BP spill has been called the largest environmental...
Plc contract workers remove oil that washed onto the beach at Grand Isle State Park in Grand Isle, Louisiana, U.S., on Sunday, June 6, 2010. A Tiger...
In this handout from the U.S. Department of Defense, crewmembers from USCGC Harry Claiborne remove an oil covered boom from the ocean May 8, 2010 in...
Worker cleans tarballs from the BP oil spill on Waveland beach December 6, 2010 in Waveland, Mississippi. Nearly eight months after the spill,...
Greenpeace poster displaying a leaking oil logo is placed on a fence after activists closed a BP petrol station in Camden on July 27, 2010 in London,...
Support ships are seen near where efforts continue to recover oil and cap the Deepwater Horizon spill site on July 3, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico off...
Absorbent material is seen ringing an island as efforts are made to keep the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill off the land on July 3, 2010 near...
An Ibis with oil stained feathers from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill flies over Cat Bay on June 28, 2010 near Grand Isle, Louisiana. According to...
Boom floats in the water as contract workers from BP use skimmers to clean oil from a marsh near Pass a Loutre on June 1, 2010 near Venice,...
Contract workers from BP use skimmers to clean oil from a marsh near Pass a Loutre on June 1, 2010 near Venice, Louisiana. Earlier in the day, U.S....
== With AFP Story by Mira OBERMAN: US-oil-pollution-environment-BP-drilling,FOCUS ==Ships which have been docked for months after a moratorium on...
Crane stands on a beach chair at dawn on the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill on April 20, 2011 in Orange Beach, Alabama. Orange Beach on the...
Crane stands on the beach at dawn on the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill on April 20, 2011 in Orange Beach, Alabama. Orange Beach on the...
== With AFP Story by Mira Oberman: US-oil-pollution-environment-BP-cleanup,FOCUS ==Green shoots grow among the blackened marsh grasses killed by oil...
Marsh grasses battered by oil from the BP oil spill are seen December 5, 2010 in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. Nearly eight months after the spill, oil...
President Barack Obama is photographed in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, June 15 after delivering his speech...
President Barack Obama speaks after meeting with Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen and local officials on efforts to fight the BP oil spill June 14,...
The Seadrill West Sirius platform, an ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig assigned by Devon Energy and Seadrill to operate for BP Plc, works near...
President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden about the BP oil spill situation in the Gulf of Mexico, on July 16, 2010 in Washington, DC....
An American flag lays in a slick of oil that washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on July 4, 2010 in Gulf Shores,...
The Q4000, a vessel leased by BP Plc, center, burns off oil and gas it collected at the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of...
Pelican covered in oil is cleaned at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center on June 11, 2010 in Buras, Louisiana. It is thought that...
The Transocean Ltd. Development Driller II platform, which is leased by BP Plc, works to drill a relief well at the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill...
Cleanup crew picks up oil from a beach on May 25, 2010 at Port Fourchon, Louisiana. As BP prepares to try and stop the oil leak with a "top kill"...
Natural gas siphoned from the BP oil leak burns off on the Discover Enterprise on May 21, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast....
The sign for a BP filling station in Westminster on February 1, 2011 in London, England. BP has reported a loss for 2010 of 3.1bn GBP, this is the...
Oil covered brown pelicans found off the Louisiana coast and affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico wait in a holding...
The sign for a BP filling station in Westminster on February 1, 2011 in London, England. BP has reported a loss for 2010 of 3.1bn GBP, this is the...
Ship works near the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on August 3, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. BP is to begin...
Ships work near the site of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on August 3, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. BP is to begin...
Workers hired by BP clean oil off the beach in a contaminated area on June 12, 2010 in Grand Isle, Louisiana. U.S. Government scientists today...
In the handout from the U.S. Coast Guard the Coast Guard Cutter Elm pumps recovered oil into an attached barge using the ship's skimmer on June 9 20...
The Development Driller III, which is drilling the relief well, is seen at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill May 11, 2010 off the coast of...
Smoke rises from a controlled burn May 19, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. According to reports May 20 Environmental Protection Agency has ordered BP to...
An illuminated sign stands on the forecourt of a BP gas station, operated by BP Plc, in Upminster, U.K., on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. BP Plc's push to...
In this handout from theU.S. Coast Guard, Offshore supply vessels assist and observe the worksite of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion May 17,...
Crews on ships work on skimming and collecting oil near the source site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster May 29, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico near...
Drilling platform is seen near the site where the Deepwater Horizon oil platform sank as work continues to contain the oil leak on May 9, 2010 in the...
In this handout image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, the damaged blow out preventer along with the Lower Marine Riser Package cap from the...
