Go Finance Reporting NEW ORLEANS - British Petroleum (BP) sue device makers who failed to stop the disastrous oil spill Gulf of Mexico and the owner of the rig that exploded. BP Party also alleges that it was negligence that caused the disaster.
This British company said in papers filed in federal court in New Orleans, demanding the rig owner, Transocean of $ 40 billion due to damage that causes the deadly explosion last year in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the worst oil spill off the coast of the United States (U.S.).
Reporting from the Associated Press on Thursday (04/21/2011), BP said that every single safety systems and procedures and the device and controls on the rig Deepwater Horizon is considered failed.
It's also a lawsuit Cameron International, which provides preventive explosion with designs that were already damaged, causing a number of unreasonable risk of harm.
The lawsuit was filed in the first year after the explosion that caused the spill, seeking damages to help BP to pay tens of billions of dollars in liabilities that had caused the disaster.
Although BP has estimated losses of $ 40, 9 billion, still could face tens of billions of dollars more in civil and criminal fines and penalties from the U.S. government.
For your information, eleven people were killed when the rig Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010, causing more than 200 million gallons of oil spewing from the bottom of the well.
A testing company hired by the government to investigate the explosion prevention equipment has the wrong design. But it also cites other problems related to the act of the rig crew.
BP said in a statement that he wanted to Transocean to pay a "proportionate" share of all damages and liabilities of the disaster. (GoFinance)
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