Settlement Possible Between U.S., BP In 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Case

摘要

A federal judge's recent ruling that BP Plc's Ma-condo well dumped less oil in the Gulf of Mexico than the U.S. government claimed could trigger a settlement before a decision on the amount it must pay after a trial set to begin this week (In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, E.D. La., No. MDL-2179, 1/15/15).