Anadarko says BP should foot entire bill cleanup as new estimates show spill could last up four more years
BP has come under further pressure after one its partners said oil giant should foot entire bill damage caused by Gulf Mexico spill.
Anadarko Petroleum, which owns quarter the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well, refused accept any blame the explosion that killed 11 workers and led the US’s worst environmental disaster.
The company′s chairman chief executive, Jim Hackett, said statement BP’s actions probably amounted “gross negligence or wilful misconduct”.
BP′s chief executive Tony Hayward, who was grilled the disaster Congress seven hours Thursday, said he “strongly disagreed” with the allegation expected the firm’s partners “live up their obligations″.
The spat between the two companies came as industry experts warned that the out-of-control well will go spewing oil into the Gulf Mexico the next two years or more all attempts to contain or plug the gusher fail.
The estimates, based new figures supplied Hayward, suggest the potential environmental economic devastation would far outstrip the damage done so far the ruptured well, which has been spewing 60 days.
Hayward told a Congressional committee Thursday that reservoir still held 50m barrels, providing fresh urgency efforts contain oil, or seal off gusher completely with a relief well.
Using government’s present flow estimates up 60,000 barrels day, BP’s well could go gushing two four years, unless it stopped.
BP and US government say they are containing a rising share oil well, and hope plug gusher completely August, when two relief wells will complete. BP said today relief wells were within 60 metres ruptured well.
The consequences failure enormous.
“If it went on uncontrolled, it could certainly leak for two years and certainly longer than that,” said Philip Johnson, a professor of petroleum engineering at University of Alabama.
But he said rate of leak would fall sharply once natural gas in reservoir is exhausted. “That is driving force,” he said. “As soon as that is gone, it won’t leak at any serious rate.”
Yesterday, BP’s chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said Hayward had been relieved day-to-day control spill and that company’s managing director Bob Dudley would take over.
Svanberg admitted the oil rig explosion was “tragic one” which “should never have happened”.
He denied claims the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev that BP faced possible “annihilation” over the spill.
“I think we have put everything in perspective, course this is a huge thing, it is a huge setback BP [but] company is strong, company has strong underlying performance, strong cash flow, strong operations,” Svanberg said.
Hayward has pledged that BP will foot the entire clean-up bill insisted it “too early say” what caused the massive spill.
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