BP continues Transocean seeking to recover damages for the spill in the Gulf

April 20, 2011, 8: 56 pm EDT by Karen Gullo and Allen Johnson Jr.

(Updates with costs of BP in the second paragraph).

April 20 (Bloomberg) - BP Plc continued Transocean Ltd., owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon drilling oil exploded a year ago today, saying that the company is responsible for the accident and who seek to recover the costs for billions of dollars in damages related to the oil from the Gulf of the Mexicospills.BP said in a complaint filed today in Federal Court in New Orleans, that he has already committed $ 17.7 billion costs and that it took a charge before tax $ 40.9 billion from the oil spill last year. The company based in London said that without "Misconduct of Transocean," it would not have been any explosion, fire, death, or oil spills. "The simple fact that is April 20, 2010, each single security system and device and the control on deep water Horizon procedure has failed, which resulted in the victim,"BP said in its complaint."The Macondo well skip one year ago today, triggering the worst offshore oil spill in the history of the United States and leading to hundreds of lawsuits against BP and its partners and entrepreneurs. Filing of today came a series of complaints and applications by counterclaim by the plaintiffs and defendants meeting a time limit fixed by the judge of the New Orleans, oversee the combinations.Transocean, based in Vernier, Switzerland, has breached its contractual obligations, failing such maintain rig and to fix earlier adequately engine problems and not to train his crew and coordinate the fight against the fires on the ship, according to the complaint of BP.Earlier today, BP sued Cameron International Corp. on the allegations that this company Blowout Prevention material was a cause "in whole or in part" of the eruption of the Macondo well and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.The case is in Re: oil spill Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of the Mexico, April 20, 2010, MDL-2179, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana (New Orleans).

-With the help of Margaret Cronin Fisk in Southfield, Michigan and Laurel Brubaker Calkins in Houston. Editors: Michael Hytha, Peter Blumberg

To contact the reporters on this story: Karen Gullo in San Francisco at kgullo@bloomberg.net; Allen Johnson Jr. in New Orleans at allenmct@gmail.com

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Michael Hytha to the mhytha@bloomberg.net

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