Transocean Blames BP, Halliburton For Nation's Worst Offshore Oil Spill

摘要

Transocean Ltd., the owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last year, released a report June 22 that lays the blame squarely on BP PLC, the majority owner and operator of the well, and Halliburton, the cementing contractor Transocean's lengthy internal investigation comes more than a year after the April 20, 2010, well blowout 40 miles off the Louisiana coast that claimed 11 lives and spilled almost 5 million barrels of crude oil into the central Gulf over 87 days, making it the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.