BP Hits Back at Transocean in Feud Over Sharing Data on Spill

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BP Plc fired back at Transocean Ltd. in a dispute over the withholding of information about possible causes of the Gulf oil spill.

James Neath, BP’s associate general counsel, said an Aug. 18 letter from a Transocean attorney asserting BP wasn’t releasing critical data contained “many false and misleading assertions.”