An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout at BP Plcs Macondo well that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig.
BP has been complaining for a long time that many claims filed after its April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were phony. Now there's more evidence to back that up.
BP was barred by a U.S. judge from recovering hundreds of millions of dollars it claims to have overpaid some victims for economic losses from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Halliburton Energy Services will plead guilty for destroying evidence related to BPs 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, in which Halliburton acted as the cement contractor on the exploded drilling rig that caused the disaster.