BP highlights roles of Transocean and Halliburton
source: David Gardner
BP triggered a further backlash last night as it tried to shift the blame for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
In a report released yesterday into the cause of the spill, the beleaguered British oil giant claims two other multinational companies were largely at fault.
The 193-page internal investigation plays down BP's culpability for America's worst ever oil leak, which took 87 days to plug and strained relations between the U.S. and Britain.
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But it provoked an angry response last night from U.S. politicians, environmentalists and the firms it singled out for blame.
BP insisted that a 'sequence of failures involving a number of different parties' led to the April 20 rig explosion that killed 11 rig workers and spilled almost five million barrels of oil into the ocean.
According to the four-month probe, 'multiple companies and work teams' contributed to the accident. BP denied the design of its deepwater well triggered the catastrophe.
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