That same year, under the new Obama Administration, the MMS rubber-stamped BP's initial drilling plan for the Macondo well. Using an MMS formula, BP calculated that the worst-case spill from the ...

a company executive said under cross-examination at a Wednesday trial over the deadly disaster. James Dupree, who led BP’s efforts to seal its Macondo well, said engineers didn’t have the ...

Macondo is the name of the well that is 18,000 feet into the bedrock under the Gulf that the Deepwater Horizon's accident. If this does turn out to be a sort of aftershock to last year's disaster ...