Transocean Demand That BP Honor Contract Tip of a Growing Melee

摘要

From Capitol Hill to a federal court in New Orleans, the continuing fight over the Deepwater Horizon disaster took on all the subtlety of a back-alley brawl last week. The week started with a legal barrage by Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, a subsidiary of Transocean, which asked the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana for a summary judgment against BP for failing to live up to its end of a contract in which it promised to protect the drilling company from any fines resulting from an accident.