"But it's worked out now; they did put stone down." Rising prices for aggregate (stone), chemicals spills and heavy truck traffic which is expected to accompany the developments also were touched on. Strauss said he expects to have representatives from...

The company also agreed to pay $20 million for coastal protection projects. MOEX is the first company involved in the disaster to settle with the federal government over the spill. The federal government also sued BP; the rig’s owner, Transocean; and...

The settlement is the first the federal government has made in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon accident, which unleashed the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. BP had a 55% stake in the well, while Anadarko Petroleum had a 25% stake.A...

But a settlement is complicated. BP faces action from the government, individuals and businesses and is suing its contractors to make them contribute to the clean-up cost. It also believes its partners in the well, Anadarko Petroleum (APC.N) and...

Bakken - 14,000 square miles in North Dakota, Montana and parts of Canada. In Colorado, there is a lot of capacity and crude oil coming into the system. Colorado has refineries that are close and that helps get the gas to our stations at a lower price. ...

You can't always reach a hard conclusion about your company's health, but you can better understand what to expect, and what to watch. Here's the margin picture for Anadarko Petroleum over the past few years. Because of seasonality in some businesses,...