{"id":427226,"date":"2011-05-20T07:29:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T07:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/20\/bp-reaches-deal-on-gulf-oil-spill\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T07:29:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T07:29:02","slug":"bp-reaches-deal-on-gulf-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/20\/bp-reaches-deal-on-gulf-oil-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"BP reaches deal on Gulf oil spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"51.233256351\"><span><span>20 May 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>03:29 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MOEX Offshore has agreed to pay $1.065bn (\u00a3657m) to BP to settle all claims between the companies relating to the Deepwater Horizon rig accident.<\/p>\n<p>MOEX owned 10% of the Macondo well, which eventually leaked millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>BP has said it will put the money into the $20bn trust it established to meet claims relating to the oil spill.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement excludes fines, penalties or punitive damages that may be applied in future.<\/p>\n<p>MOEX is a unit of the Japanese trading house Mitsui.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MOEX is the first company to join BP in helping to meet our shared responsibilities in the Gulf,&#8221; said BP chief executive Bob Dudley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We call on the other parties involved in the Macondo well to follow the lead of the MOEX and Mitsui parties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The April 2010 blast aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 people and caused one of the worst oil spills in history.<\/p>\n<p>The Macondo well, about a mile underneath the rig, was finally sealed in September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow this link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/business-13466419\" title=\"BP reaches deal on Gulf oil spill\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BP reaches deal on Gulf oil spill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 20 May 2011 Last updated at 03:29 ET MOEX Offshore has agreed to pay $1.065bn (\u00a3657m) to BP to settle all claims between the companies relating to the Deepwater Horizon rig accident. 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BP has said it will put the money into the $20bn trust it established to meet claims relating to the oil spill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BP reaches deal on Gulf oil spill - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/20\/bp-reaches-deal-on-gulf-oil-spill\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"BP reaches deal on Gulf oil spill - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"20 May 2011 Last updated at 03:29 ET MOEX Offshore has agreed to pay $1.065bn (\u00a3657m) to BP to settle all claims between the companies relating to the Deepwater Horizon rig accident. 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