BP settles for $250M in Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Maker of failed blowout preventer agrees to pay after rig disaster
The Associated Press
Posted: Dec 16, 2011 7:44 AM ET
Last Updated: Dec 16, 2011 7:37 AM ET
A file photo from April 21, 2010, shows the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burning in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has accepted $250 million from Cameron International, the company that manufactured the blowout preventer that failed to contain the oil, following the accident that claimed 11 lives. (Gerald Herbert/Associated Press)
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BP PLC says it will be paid $250 million by the maker of the blowout preventer that failed to halt oil spewing from BP's busted well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Under the agreement announced Friday, BP and Cameron International Corp. will drop all claims against one another. BP says the money will be deposited into the $20-billion fund set up to compensate victims of the April 2010 spill.
BP said the agreement was not an admission of liability by either party.
The settlement comes in advance of a federal trial over the spill.
The non-jury trial is set to begin in February and determine fault in the explosion of the BP-leased rig Deepwater Horizon off the Louisiana coast. The oil spill was the nation's worst offshore oil disaster.
© The Associated Press, 2011
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