British Petroleum sued its partners over the environmental disaster in the US

British Petroleum (BP) has filed a lawsuit against the owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, where an explosion occurred exactly one year ago, which triggered the biggest environmental disaster in US history.

BP is seeking $40,9 billion in damages from Transocean, the owner of the platform, claiming that all safety systems and devices, as well as the well control procedure on the seabed, failed, which led to a large oil spill.

The British company is also suing Cameron International, which supplied the massive oil spill stop device, whose faulty design contributed to the disaster.

BP is trying to come up with that money to more easily pay tens of billions of dollars in compensation it has to pay for damage done to the economy along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, after the oil spilled from the Macondo well, which is owned by BP.

At the same time, Transocean sued BP, demanding $12,9 million, and the other companies for another $20 million. Among them is Holibarton, which provided the cement mixture to secure the oil well, which proved to be unstable.

As stated in the lawsuit, these are the costs that Transocean had when the oil rig sank into the sea.

The lawsuits were filed on the last day of the deadline when the partners in the offshore oil exploitation business had the right to file such claims against each other.

The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20 last year with an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, 80 kilometers off the coast of Louisiana, in which 11 workers died.

From the source of Makondo, an uncontrolled outflow of oil began, which, after several unsuccessful attempts, was partially brought under control only on June 4.

It was only on July 15 that BP managed to install an effective cap on the opening, which managed to completely stop the oil from leaking out.

The government's roughest estimates are that more than 200 million gallons of oil leaked from Macon in three months, making the crisis the largest environmental disaster in US history.

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