BP paid $ 3.5 million on claims for damages from oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico

The British oil company British Petroleum (BP) paid $ 3.5 million on claims for damages from oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. The organization has received about 4.7 thousand claims for damages, the company had already paid damages for 295 of them, Fox News reports citing David Nigel, head of Washington BU.

According to the data of the official website of the company, expenditures of British Petroleum for the liquidation of the accident on a drilling platform, which, we recall, took place in the 20's days of April, totaled $ 350 million, including the cost of oil spill response, containment, etc. e. There are currently 275 special vessels involved in the work, the amount of reagents used for the elimination of pollution made up 315 thousand gallons, 90 thousand barrels of oily liquid collected.

(Source: Port News)