The oil executive sought to distance the industry from BP’s mistakes, saying his own company would have had more safety barriers in place. “From what I know today, Shell clearly would have drilled this well in a different way and would have had more options to prevent the accident,” Mr Voser said at the Oil & Money summit in London. However, the Shell boss acknowledged that all oil companies failed to prepare properly for a major accident, adding that he expects tighter regulation. BP did not send any representatives to the major annual conference and declined to comment on Shell’s criticism. “The report was very clear in its parameters and very clear in its conclusions,” a BP spokesman said. Mr Voser’s remarks came as executives were cheered by the news that the White House was to lift its ban on US deepwater drilling. Ken Salazar, US Secretary of the Interior, said: “I have decided that it is now appropriate to lift the suspension on deepwater drilling for those operators … Read ahead
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Kenneth R. Feinberg, appointed by President Barack Obama as the Independent Administrator of the Gulf Claims Facility for the $20 billion BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill compensation fund, on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010, announced emergency protocols for claims against the fund. Feinberg is seen here speaking at the Economics Club in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010. … 
Inhabitants of the Gulf coast have endured some of the most catastrophic tragedies in recent history. Exacerbating those tragedies was the spectacularly poor leadership of two men: BP’s bumbling CEO Tony Hayward, and the deposed head of FEMA, Michael Brown (the former of oil spill infamy, and the latter widely detested for his bungled response to Hurricane Katrina). Since there can be only one King of the Gulf Gaffe, we pitted the two against each another in a five-round battle royale using their own quotes as ammunition. May the worst-spoken win. … 
BP’s massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has led adults in the five largest European countries and the United States to be more concerned than before the spill about many environmental issues and oil dependency, according to a new poll released last week. … 
Gulf of Mexico oil spill. “The farther away you are from the Gulf and the Gulf shore the less likely it is that you will have a valid claim,” Feinberg, administrator of the fund, said Aug. 13 in a telephone interview. “But I will take a look at each claim.” BP has received more than 142,400 claims, representing every state, for damages from the well that gushed for almost three months, and most will be turned over to the Feinberg-run Gulf Coast Claims Facility that goes into operation on Aug. 23, according to … 
BP says it is no longer using toxic dispersants to break up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Gulf Coast residents claim otherwise, and say they have the sicknesses to prove it. BP has been using two oil dispersants, Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527, both of which are banned in Britain. More than 1.9 million gallons of dispersant has been used. … 
NEW ORLEANS — The man with pinpoint accuracy who is drilling the relief well meant to plug BP’s runaway well is looking forward to finishing his mission and celebrating with a cigar, a dinner party with his crew and a trip somewhere quiet to unwind with his wife. … 
Reporting from Buras, La. â Some 200 shrimping boats normally unload their succulent catch and repair their wing-like nets at this steamy bayou port, but only 15 or so tied up to the docks this week. “Everyone is working on the oil spill now,” said …