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Tuesday, November 09, 2010  Former BP PLC chief Tony Hayward says the company was unprepared for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, forcing it to improvise solutions, and that evaporating credit took it close to financial disaster.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010  NOAA today reopened to commercial and recreational fishing 7,970 square miles of Gulf waters along the southern boundary of the federal closed area.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010  With efforts in the Gulf of Mexico to permanently kill-or more specifically- “bottom kill” the Deepwater Horizon well that caused the world’s largest accidental oil spill in history, I thought it might be interesting to investigate how much of that oil will eventually be broken down-naturally.

Thursday, September 02, 2010  An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.

Thursday, August 26, 2010  They found that a 22 mile long, 650 foot high pocket of oil has remained unchanged at a depth of 3600 feet.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010  “What will the hurricane do to the oil slick in the Gulf?”

Wednesday, August 04, 2010  In a significant step toward stopping the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, BP said Wednesday mud that was forced down its blown-out well was holding back the flow of crude in the Gulf of Mexico and it was in a "static condition."

Monday, August 02, 2010  As the battle against the oil continues in the Gulf of Mexico, the environmental impact is growing.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010  The director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which continues to monitor the oil on this 100th day since the British Petroleum blowout, has described the oil in the Gulf of Mexico as becoming increasingly difficult to find on the water surface.

Monday, July 12, 2010  A new cap has been installed on the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, offering hope of containing the gusher for the first time since BP's deepwater rig exploded in April.

Monday, July 12, 2010  BP says it's ahead of schedule as underwater robots steadily assemble heavy metal pieces in what could be the most significant progress yet toward containing the Gulf oil spill.

Thursday, June 03, 2010  BP was trying to put a lid on the Gulf oil gusher.

Thursday, May 27, 2010  President Barack Obama moved aggressively to show his government is in charge of the Gulf oil spill on Thursday, calling the spill an "unprecedented disaster" and blasting a "scandalously close relationship" between oil companies and regulators.

Thursday, May 27, 2010  If oil stops flowing to the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials will know that their latest effort to plug a blown-out undersea well off the Louisiana coast was successful.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010  A second, smaller oil containment box was lowered into the sea near the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.