BP wants $US15b settlement over spill
BP wants $US15b settlement over spill Updated: 07:44, Sunday June 10, 2012 BP hopes to pay less than $US15 billion to settle all criminal and civil penalties with US authorities over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 people and led to the largest offshore oil spill in US history, the Financial Times reported Saturday.
BP and the plaintiffs in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill case have reached an estimated $7.8 billion settlement.