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Media: BP gets new billion-dollar charge for Deep Water Horizon spill

Yet another billion-dollar bill for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe has landed at BP's door. The combined bill thus climbs to USD 62.5 billion, according to The Guardian.
Photo: GERALD HERBERT/AP/POLFOTO
Photo: GERALD HERBERT/AP/POLFOTO
BY JOHANNES HARTKOPF-MIKKELSEN

Oil giant BP must pay out a further 2.5 billion in charges for the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, pushing the combined bill to USD 62.5 billion, reports The Guardian.

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