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Panel urged to lift U.S. oil drilling ban, new one issued The new ban came during the first meeting of the National Commission on the BP is-kind Deepwater Horizon Spill seekitonline and Offshore Drilling, the seven-person White House gear-system panel charged with

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U.S. issues new offshore oil drilling ban Shares in BP Plc shares surged and sources said the thebigbazaar British energy giant is in talks with U.S. energy company Apache Corp and others to sell assets worth up to $10 billion. Meanwhile, BP was in the process news-nee