Sunday 18 January 2015

BP off hook for several billion dollars in oil spill fines

OIL AND GAS
BP off hook for several billion dollars in oil spill fines
New York (AFP) Jan 16, 2015 - A US judge said Thursday energy giant BP faces a maximum fine of $13.7 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a sum reduced by several billion dollars. A fine of up to $18 billion had originally been set as a possible penalty, based on government estimates that 4.19 million barrels of oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico. But US federal court judge Carl Barbier said Thursda ... more


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