The court in the US city of New Orleans (Louisiana) on Thursday to determine the maximum amount of the fine that can be imposed on the oil company BP in connection with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 – the largest in US history. The penalty shall not exceed 13.7 billion dollars, Judge Carl Barbier decided, reports Tass.
An explosion on a drilling platform Deepwater Horizon, which BP has used for oil production at the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, occurred in April 2010. With the explosion of killed 11 people . Oil spill lasted three months and caused damage to Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Texas. Estimates of the amount of oil poured out into the Gulf of Mexico, varied and reached 5 million barrels.
Judge Carl Barbier in the end estimated that the fault of BP in the Gulf of water got about 3.19 million barrels of oil. Thus, he acknowledged the incorrect statement the US authorities that the amount of oil spilled was 4.2 million barrels. In this case, the company could face a fine of up to $ 18 billion.
The Court proceeds from the assumption that a single barrel of oil spilled BP must pay 4.3 thousand dollars. The total amount of the fine is influenced by many factors, including what measures the company has taken to reduce damage to the environment.
The next week in New Orleans to begin the next stage of the trial, the results of which will determine the final volume Barbier payments for BP. The company’s own estimates spent about $ 28 billion to eliminate it caused large-scale ecological catastrophe.
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