BP oil spill: special report

Oil company BP has asked contractor Halliburton to pay all of its billions of pounds of costs over the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

Environmentalists call for all the details of a 20-mile oil leak off the Scottish coast to be released, as Royal Dutch Shell say the spill is under control

One year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, activists have targeted Tate Britain’s links with BP during a week of worldwide demonstrations.

Six protesters are ejected after trying to storm the stage at BP’s first annual general meeting since the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster last year, amid angry scenes outside the venue.

BP reports its first annual loss in nearly 20 years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. But as Siobhan Kennedy reports, the disaster has not stopped BP renewing its focus on deep sea exploration.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could have been avoided and was partly caused by short cuts and cost-cutting measures by BP and other companies, a scathing inquiry finds.

The US government is to sue BP and several of its partners for costs and damages in a bid to recover billions of dollars after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

As BP announces a return to profit despite bearing the costs of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson asks whether it signals an end to the oil giant’s rocky year.

Contractor Halliburton used flawed cement on the Gulf of Mexico oil well which may have contributed to the blowout that sparked the biggest offshore spill in US history, a report finds.

American Bob Dudley takes the reins at BP, flagging a return to dividends. Who Knows Who asks if Dudley, once chased from Russia by billionaire oligarchs, could be BP’s all-American hero.

The BP oil well may no longer be spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but the story is far from over. Alex Thomson writes on the true cost of the disaster.

As costs of the BP oil spill clean-up surpass a billion dollars, Channel 4 News runs through the timeline of events that led to the biggest oil slick in US history.

In June Barack Obama likened the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. It was one of several incendiary comments from the president critical of BP.

As the BP oil leak crisis appears to be ending in the Gulf of Mexico, marine conservation biologist Professor Rick Steiner, writing for Channel 4 News, asks why did it take so long?

As BP boss Tony Hayward steps down as chief executive, Channel 4 News looks at who the “demonised and vilified” man is, and who is his replacement, Bob Dudley.