BP banned from US government contracts
- Published: 28 Nov 2012 at 21.47
- Online news: World
British oil giant BP was temporarily banned from winning new US government contracts after agreeing to plead guilty to criminal charges in the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.
In this file image provided be the US Coast Guard, fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, in April 2010, near New Orleans, Louisiana. BP is temporarily banned from winning new US government contracts after agreeing to plead guilty to criminal charges in the deadly 2010 oil spill disaster.
The decision was announced on Wednesday, hours before two BP supervisors pleaded not guilty in a federal court in New Orleans to manslaughter charges for their failure to prevent the deadly blast on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.
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