BP Shares Surge After Anadarko Settlement

BP shares opened sharply higher Monday after the U.K. oil company reached a $4 billion out of court settlement with Anadarko related to a deadly explosion and oil spill at a U.S. offshore drilling platform.

Anadarko followed Japan's Mitsui & Co. and Weatherford International in agreeing to pay BP to settle claims over the Deepwater Horizon platform disaster, which killed 11 and led to the largest accidental marine oil spill in U.S. history. Drilling contractor Transocean's Deepwater Horizon rig had been leased by BP, while Anadarko and Mitsui also held stakes in the Macondo prospect.

Anadarko also agreed to drop its gross negligence claims against BP and transfer to BP the 25% interest it still holds in the Macondo well, which caused the devastating oil spill.

Like the Mitsui deal, BP's pact with Anadarko shelters the Houston based company from claims brought by private businesses and property owners seeking compensatory damages. But it doesn't protect Anadarko from punitive damages or penalties that might come from the U.S. government. Civil liability trials on the matter are scheduled to begin in February.....Read the entire Rigzone article.



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Sorry BP, No One Wants You Drilling In The Arctic

BP has been dissuaded not to join in on oil drilling operations in the Arctic region around Greenland, according to The Guardian. BP was persuaded not to join in the bidding process by the country of Greenland, which felt that the company's involvement in the project might make a bad PR situation worse.

A Greenpeace ship is already stationed off the coast of Greenland, protesting Cairn Energy's exploration activities there. Cairn announced on Tuesday that it had found natural gas in the area, but not any oil.

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Phil Flynn: Is BP Too Big To Fail?

Get ready for the latest BP stress test and a new BP thing to worry about. Reuter’s reports that the U.S. Federal Reserve's New York branch has been investigating the exposure of major financial firms to BP to make sure that if BP can't meet the costs of its spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it won't put Wall Street or the world's financial system at risk. Reuters says that the New York fed, after two weeks of reviewing documents and asking banks about their BP exposure, found no systemic risk, and it hasn't asked firms to alter their credit relationships with BP, the sources said. The New York fed and BP officials declined to comment. Banks that trade with BP wouldn't comment publicly. You are entering a new dimension.

The dimension not only of sight and sound but of the mind and imagination, you are entering land and borrowing and illusion of cutting deficits. Beware you have entered the Euro Zone. The oil market seemed to have one eye on the storm had another eye on the Euro. The Euro really saw some pressure during the session as uncertainty about EU member nations ability to pay back debt became an issue. Dow Jones said the euro fell broadly Monday as worries mounted about financial system strains ahead of the expiry of a large scale European Central Bank lending facility later investors fear a liquidity shortfall. The euro fell to a fresh all time low against the Swiss franc and its worst level since November2008 versus the U.K. pound. It's clear now that.....Read the entire article.


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