Tag: Deepwater Horizon rig

• Tuesday, October 6th 2015 - 10:17 UTC

  BP agrees to pay 20bn dollars to settle claims with Gulf of Mexico 2010 oil spill

  

  Oil giant BP has agreed to pay $20bn to settle claims with the US stemming from the company's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. An explosion on BP's deep-water drill, off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 killed 11 workers.

• Friday, November 16th 2012 - 00:42 UTC

  BP pleads guilty to Gulf of Mexico spill and will pay a record 4.5bn

  

  BP Plc agreed on Thursday to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the deadly Gulf of Mexico spill and pay a record 4.5 billion dollars including the biggest criminal fine in United States history. Three BP employees were also charged, two of them with manslaughter.