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The injunction was imposed in February after Russian shareholders in another BP venture, TNK-BP, argued that they should be given first refusal on any new BP project in Russia.
To New Jersey, permitting the BP project is simply an exercise of "traditional riparian authority" recognized under the compact, its lawyer, H. Bartow Farr III, told the justices.
An Algerian colleague at the plant is said to have witnessed the BP project services manager "being shot" by his captors as commandos stormed the compound.
There also have been reports that some agency officials wanted to subject the BP project to a complete environmental impact review but, in the end, accepted BP's assurances that a huge oil spill was unlikely.
But other Congressional officials were less sympathetic as they demanded that the agency, now known as the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, turn over its records about the approval of the BP project and other regulatory measures.
No. 10 is Atlantis, another BP project that was the subject of safety concerns after the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
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The TNK-BP project is a joint venture between the British oil leviathan and the Russian consortium Alfa Group, controlled by billionaire oligarch Michael Fridman.
The state-owned natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, which recently merged with Rosneft, the country's fifth-largest oil company, is already muscling in on some TNK-BP projects.
But BP's project, called Liberty, has been exempted as regulators have granted it status as an "onshore" project even though it is about three miles off the coast in the Beaufort Sea.
At around 1,700 meters, or a little more than a mile, BP's project in the Gulf of Sirte would reach even greater depths than its ill-fated venture in the Gulf of Mexico.
TWO years after a series of gambles and ill-advised decisions on a BP drilling project led to the largest accidental oil spill in United States history and the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, no one has been held accountable.
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