Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, speaks at a news conference on the cleanup and containment efforts for the BP Plc...
Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland security secretary, speaks at a news conference on the cleanup and containment efforts for the BP Plc Deepwater...
Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana, listens during a news conference on the cleanup and containment efforts for the BP Plc Deepwater Horizon...
Ken Salazar, U.S. Secretary of the interior, speaks during a news conference on the cleanup and containment efforts for the BP Plc Deepwater Horizon...
Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland security secretary, right, and U.S. Representative Charlie Melancon of Louisiana, listen during a news conference on...
Doug Suttles, chief operating officer of exploration and production for BP America, speaks during a news conference on the cleanup and containment...
Doug Suttles, chief operating officer of exploration and production for BP America, speaks during a news conference on the cleanup and containment...
Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana, speaks during a news conference on the cleanup and containment efforts for the BP Plc Deepwater Horizon drilling...
Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland security secretary, speaks at a news conference on the cleanup and containment efforts for the BP Plc Deepwater...
Doug Suttles, chief operating officer of exploration and production for BP America, listens during a news conference on the cleanup and containment...
Doug Suttles, chief operating officer of exploration and production for BP America, listens during a news conference on the cleanup and containment...
Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland security secretary, listens during a news conference on the cleanup and containment efforts for the BP Plc Deepwater...
Ken Salazar, U.S. Interior secretary, speaks during a news conference on the cleanup and containment efforts for the BP Plc Deepwater Horizon...
Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisiana, speaks during a news conference on the cleanup and containment efforts for the BP Plc Deepwater Horizon drilling...
Doug Suttles, chief operating officer of exploration and production for BP America, listens during a news conference on the cleanup and containment...
Handful of visitors inside the unspoiled ruins of Leptis Magna, an ancient Roman city in Libya edged against the azure waters of the Mediterranean....
Handful of visitors inside the unspoiled ruins of Leptis Magna, an ancient Roman city in Libya edged against the azure waters of the Mediterranean....
Senior officials of Japanese nonprofit organization The Nippon Foundation and U.S. Consortium DeepStar shake hands in Houston after signing a deal to...
Only two places in the world offer oil of this quality at such a low depth: China and Loiret. Philippe Berier, the head of the storage depot...
Only two places in the world offer oil of this quality at such a low depth: China and Loiret. Philippe Berier, the head of the storage depot...
Rolf Guttorm, a deep-sea diver, poses outside the Courthouse in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Norway's oil boom, which in the past two...
Tom Engh, a deep-sea diver, poses outside the Courthouse in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Norway's oil boom, which in the past two...
Rolf Guttorm, a deep-sea diver, reacts outside the Courthouse in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Norway's oil boom, which in the past two...
Gary Cronin, a deep-sea diver, poses outside the Courthouse in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Norway's oil boom, which in the past two...
Gary Cronin, a deep-sea diver, poses outside the Courthouse in Oslo, Norway, on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. Norway's oil boom, which in the past two...
Steelworker guides a massive construction crane's hook at Cnooc Ltd.'s marine engineering facility in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen Tuesday,...
Steelworker guides a massive construction crane's hook at Cnooc Ltd.'s marine engineering facility in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen Tuesday,...
Steel worker guides a i-beam as it is positioned by a crane at Cnooc Ltd.'s marine engineering facility in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen...
France's Environment Ministry has agreed to lend Spain the "Nautile", a deep-water submarine which will check whether the estimated 17 million...
France's Environment Ministry has agreed to lend Spain the "Nautile", a deep-water submarine which will check whether the estimated 17 million...
France's Environment Ministry has agreed to lend Spain the "Nautile", a deep-water submarine which will check whether the estimated 17 million...
Flotation risers, each 75 feet in length, are stacked in a pile aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, Monday, December...
Flotation risers, each 75 feet in length, are stacked in a pile beneath the derrick of Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship,...
Flotation risers, each 75 feet in length, are stacked in a pile beneath the derrick of Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship,...
Flotation risers, each 75 feet in length, are stacked in a pile aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, Monday, December...
Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, is seen from the air, Monday, December 11 in the Gulf of Mexico at Chevron Corp.'s Tahiti...
Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, is seen from the air, Monday, December 11 in the Gulf of Mexico at Chevron Corp.'s Tahiti...
Cajun Express, a Transocean semisubmersible deepwater drilling oil rig, is seen from the air, Monday, December 12 at Chevron Corp.'s Tahiti field at...
Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drillship, is seen from the air, Monday, December 11 in the Gulf of Mexico at Chevron Corp.'s Tahiti...
Bill Thornburg, senior drill site manager for Chevron Corp. At their Tahiti field, poses for a photograph aboard the Transocean deepwater drill ship...
Donald LeGros, drill site manager for Chevron Corp. At their Tahiti field, speaks to a reporter aboard the Transocean deepwater drill ship Discoverer...
Bill Thornburg, senior drill site manager for Chevron Corp. At their Tahiti field, speaks to a reporter aboard the Transocean deepwater drill ship...
Laborers work atop the blowout preventer aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, Monday, December 11 in the Gulf of...
Laborer works atop the blowout preventer aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, Monday, December 11 in the Gulf of...
The derrick on Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, is seen from the air, Monday, December 11 in the Gulf of Mexico at Chevron...
The moon pool aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, is seen, Monday, December 11 in the Gulf of Mexico at Chevron...
Monitors and instruments are seen in the rig control room aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, Monday, December 11 in...
Michael Stokes, left, and Aaron Poag, right, both submersible engineers for the company Subsea 7, control the remotely operated vehicle from the ROV...
Map showing parcels leased by major oil companies is seen aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, Monday, December 11 in...
Sign states, "THIS IS A TIGHT HOLE. DO NOT ENTER THIS OFFICE WITHOUT PERMISSION," aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship,...
Contract workers board a Chevron Corp. Helicopter during a shift-change on Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, Monday, December...
Transocean chart illustrating "hand signals for crane" hangs aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, Monday, December 11...
An underwater remotely operated vehicle returns to Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, , Monday, December 11 in the Gulf of...
Chris Tauntin replaces choke-line aboard the Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, Monday, December 11 in the Gulf of Mexico at...
Transocean worker Larry Clayton mans the helideck aboard Discoverer Deep Seas, a Transocean deepwater drill ship, Monday, December 11 in the Gulf of...
John Hofmeister, president of U.S. Operations for Shell Oil listens to a question during the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government...
John Hofmeister, president of U.S. Operations for Shell Oil listens to a question during the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government...
John Hofmeister, president of U.S. Operations for Shell Oil, Randy Lindbacher, executive vice president of Exploration and Production of the Americas...
Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva, left, Brazil's president, is welcomed by Cuban Foreing Minister Felipe Perez Roque at the Jose Marti airport in Havana,...
