Transocean Sues BP

摘要

Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, has asked a federal judge to order BP to cover a variety of its damages and other costs arising from last year's oil spill disaster in the US Gulf of Mexico. In a filing with the US District Court in New Orleans, Transocean said BP must indemnify it for damages arising from the latter's failure to contain the flow of oil from its Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, regardless of who was negligent or else at fault. "BP should be required to live up to its contractual promises," Transocean said in the filing. A BP spokesman was not immediately available for comment.