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

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Ingenico said active U.S. of seeking Hypercom

By Olga Kharif

(Bloomberg) - Ingenico, a French manufacturer of payment terminals, is in talks to acquire the assets of U.S. Hypercom Corp., him giving a most important foot in North America, three people with knowledge of the negotiations, said.

Persons who have requested not be identified, because the transaction is public, has refused to discuss how Ingenico could pay. ViVOtech Inc., a rival manufacturer of payment technology, said yesterday that he is also interested in the assets.

Ingenico would use Hypercom operations to extend to the United States, where companies such as Google Inc. are about to begin testing mobile payment services. This technology would allow shoppers to pay for things to extraction using cash or credit card physical phones. In 2014, mobile payment systems will handle 245 billion of global transactions, up to 32 billion in 2010, according to Gartner Inc. studies firm.

The assets of the U.S. are for sale because they coincide with those of VeriFone Systems Inc., which announced its intention to acquire Hypercom for 485 million in November. VeriFone aims to consolidate its operations in France, Spain, Italy, Germany and other European markets where Hypercom is more established. The companies expect the agreement to close in the second half of 2011.

Pete Schuddekopf, a spokesman for Hypercom, refused to comment, as did Leah Roscoe, vice President of global marketing for VeriFone. Remi Calvet, a spokesman for Ingenico, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Hypercom fell 24 cents to $12.03 yesterday in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Ingenico climbed €1.22 31.60 to € Paris trade, while VeriFone based in San Jose, California has dropped $1.89, or 3.3%, to $54.95.

Ingenico - located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris - attempted to buy Hypercom in 2008, only to see the agreement through the fall. Hypercom, based in Scottsdale, Arizona), had sales of $ 126 million in the region of the Americas last year, 27% of its total income.

ViVOtech, a startup based in Santa Clara, California, said yesterday in a statement that he approached VeriFone on the purchase of assets. ViVOtech specializes in a technology called near field communications, which allows people to make payments by selecting a phone against a system of Fund.

"We believe that they have good technology, good people,"Mullagh Mick ViVOtech, Director General, said in an interview."

Kharif is a reporter for Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek in Portland, Oregon.

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