America's largest offshore oil spill long-awaited trial began on Monday, with the government, enterprise and individual accused BP PLC is mainly used for 2010 years of the disaster, and killed 11 drilling platform workers and 4 million barrels of oil leak into the gulf of Mexico.
"This is not only it in BP power, in order to prevent the tragedy to happen again, this is its responsibility," mike the DE hill, the U.S. justice department trial lawyer said during his trial on legal responsibility of the blowout and leakage.
And in New Orleans before a federal court judge Karl and bill without a jury trial is being held.
Other plaintiffs lawyers also slammed BP executives, lawyers and the owner's co-defendant, drilling platform owners overseas co., LTD. And cement service provider halliburton company BP attorney Michael bullock said, the three companies responsibility is common.
BP must show their own mistakes, does not comply with the legal definition of gross negligence the highest amount of damages. BP has already spent about 37 billion dollars on cleaning, repair, spending, settlement and fines.
In addition, debt can stretch to billions of dollars, if and bill to determine the BP or other serious negligence. Oil go ashore, from Texas to Florida, threat YuHaiXian rely on tourism and livelihood and state-owned economy, therefore the plaintiff's list is very long.
Most observers expect, before the judgment test results under the condition of the solved.
The DE hill said, more than an hour ago, BP's long-term trouble Macondo well fracture, and cause explosion, BP wellsite drilling platform leaders called engineer in Houston, discussed the critical pressure test, indicating that problem.
Company officials did not stop running, "11 soul live their life rest 47 minutes," the German said hill.
The DE hill said the accident could have been avoided, if land engineer Mark Hafle and well field drilling platform leader TangWei deling do their work. D deling face of the disaster, and as a separate criminal charges, other on drilling platform before the disaster the highest-level director Robert kaluza.
Jim Roy, other the plaintiff prosecution BP, Transocean company, halliburton company and other lawyer said, BP executives feel the pressure in the highest level to push the limit of output.
"Production profit overprotection. Safety," Roy said, who represent the plaintiff did not take part in a $8.5 billion settlement BP hit last year.
Roy said, across the open the door, the disaster and poor staff training and submarine equipment maintenance gifts, and halliburton unqualified cement, cement plug.
Transocean lawyer, brad Brian, the BP swing, says drilling platform workers trustworthy company and death betrayal.
Brian pointed out that BP employees to MaKong mentioned as "from hell" E-mail, and do not take action, d deling and Hafle eight minutes phone call display, what did they do BP has done for two months in the face of a dangerous and: "they did nothing."
About BP, halliburton company lawyer, tang · Godwin, puts forward the similar points, but also said, Transocean drilling crew should shut off the first signs of trouble. "Now, when they want to shirk responsibility, blame my customers for their bad behavior," he said.
Cameron international, the top of the well blowout preventer manufacturers, lawyer David baker, and structural engineering, along with other efforts, in order to prevent the happening of calamity.
"This is a bop. This is not a blowout of the plug," baker said.
In BP opening speech, brock said pressure test and Transocean misunderstandings. "This is a mistake, and the two companies few man," said brock. "They should not accept it, but it was a mistake."
BLAME assessment
Louisiana continues to suffer from an oil spill, the state attorney-general add for good friend Caldwell said Monday, and hundreds of miles of coastline is pollution "less than thirty miles, from the door of the court."
And bill, supervision and judgment, has a profound gulf coast root. Born in 1944 in New Orleans, he went to the southeast Louisiana university's New Orleans about la university law school. Former President Bill Clinton patted his federal judge in 1998 in New Orleans, he has a private practice for many years.
BP months trial judge, who deal with "katrina" hurricane brought several high profile cases, delayed. The army of the media in New Orleans seed to cover it, and delay to avoid the conflict of the super bowl NFL on February 3, or carnival on February 12.
In fact, the case has not yet been solved a lot of surprise. "I never thought, they are going to try this kind of circumstance, it can't afford to do so because of excessive exposure may lead to disastrous," said Brian LeCesne, in New Orleans los about la university law school professor.
The test of the first stage of the key is how many companies accused and the degree of negligence. Luther strangely, Alabama's attorney-general, says he will seek to BP, Transocean and halliburton company's behavior is "gross negligence and intentional misconduct", so will owe his country's punitive damages.
Simple negligence mistakes. Experts say, serious negligence involves reckless or deliberately ignore the human and environmental safety, it is very difficult to proof.
BP has been denied that it is serious negligence.
Any punitive damages, in billions of potential fines, according to "the clean water act". Reparations BP so far, including a record $450 million fine, and 14 criminal charges, pleaded guilty to solve charges from the United States justice department and the United States securities regulators file a civil claim.
BP sell assets, to help pay for their leakage related costs, including the old, the smaller the gulf, Mexico business.
The second phase of the trial, is expected to start in September, will focus from well from the oil flow rate. The third stage, 2014 will consider compensation.
At present, the case in Re: oil leakage in the gulf oil drilling platform "deep horizon" April twenty days
 



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