201July 15 nearly three months after the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico, BP announced on June 5438+05 that the new oil control device had successfully covered the underwater oil spill, and "no crude oil would flow into the gulf of Mexico". BP announced this result after conducting a "well integrity test" on the leaked oil well. On July 10, the company dismantled the old oil leakage control device and replaced it with the current oil control cover.
David Cotoc, an investment consultant of an American asset management company, described that the oil spill may have three different impacts on the economy: bad, worse and extremely bad. In the worst case, it takes several months to shut down the oil well and nearly 10 years to clean up the oil pollution. "The Gulf of Mexico will become a waste sea in 10 years, and the economic losses will be counted in hundreds of billions of dollars."
An internal investigation report on the oil spill has been released.
More than four months later, the internal investigation report of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was finally released. BP shifted most of the responsibility to the owner of the oil well, Transocean Drilling Company of Switzerland, and Halliburton Company of the United States, which is in charge of oil well reinforcement. As for his own responsibility, the summary of the report is only a simple sentence: he did not correctly interpret the results of oil well safety testing and failed to "nip in the bud". The transoceanic drilling company that was splashed with dirty water immediately issued a statement accusing BP of making a series of cost-saving decisions in the process of oil well design and construction, which increased the risk of accidents. In addition, the most important evidence of the incident-the failed blowout preventer, has not been tested and analyzed since it surfaced on the 4 th of this month. It is also reported that a fire broke out on a drilling platform of the American Ocean Energy Company in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, which is the second drilling platform of the company in the Gulf of Mexico in a week. The fire has been put out at present.
Set up a compensation fund
According to the BBC, US President Barack Obama confirmed on June 6, 20 10 that BP agreed to set up a $20 billion fund to compensate people whose livelihood was damaged by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill has developed into the most serious environmental disaster in American history, which has plunged the Obama administration into a "storm of public opinion" and has a tendency to lead to political disaster. According to a poll released on June 5438+05, 7 1% of Americans think that the Obama administration is too weak for BP at present, and 53% of Americans think that the Obama administration's response to the oil spill is "bad" or "very bad".