BP oil leak report: blame shared for rig disaster
September 8, 2010
A report into the BP oil rig blast which killed 11 people and cost billions in compensation and clean up costs shares blame for “sequence of failures” which led to the disaster. The oil giant’s internal report said that a “sequence of failures” involving a “number of parties” led to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig which led to four million barrels of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico and became the worst oil spill in US history. …
