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BP pumps 1.9 in Disaster Relief
BP has begun shunting cash into a ?12.5bn compensation fund for the victims of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill, as the firm bids to repair its shattered reputation. The London-listed oil major said it had put an initial ?1.9bn into the fund, set up at the behest of President Obama earlier this year to ensure it makes amends for the
environmental and financial impact of the leak.
The firm had planned to deposit the money by the end of September, but
decided to make the payment early following negotiations with US
authorities.
BP (up 6.05p to 431.4p) will put a fresh ?1.25bn into the fund in the
final quarter of 2010 and a further ?940m in every quarter until it is
fully stocked.
Wall Street bank Citigroup – part owned by the government after its near
collapse in the banking crisis – has been charged with administering
the fund as corporate trustee.
‘Establishing this trust and making the initial deposit ahead of
schedule further demonstrates our commitment to making it right in the
Gulf coast,’ said BP’s
incoming chief executive Bob Dudley, who replaces Tony Hayward on 1 November.
And the office of the attorney general said it was also looking for
‘security arrangements’ in the event that BP’s US subsidiary set up to
handle its spill response
runs into trouble and cannot put money into the fund.
The payout came as BP said that the cost of cleaning up the oil slick in
the Gulf had reached ?3.82bn, including ?200m paid out already to
nearly 104,000 claimants.
BP plans to sell ?19bn of assets to cover its ?20bn estimate of total
costs, including potential legal liabilities, fines and environmental
clean-up.
The oil major is hoping to move ahead with its permanent ‘bottom kill’ solution to the leak by the end of the week.
It hopes a relief well that is in the process of being drilled will
intersect with the shaft of the original Macondo well by Sunday.
BP can then begin pumping heavy fluids into Macondo, ensuring no further
oil can escape from the well, which has been plugged with a
semi-permanent solution – dubbed a containment cap – since 15 July.
Source: Daily Mail
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