Louisiana Says Transocean Liable for Spill, WSJ Says (Correct)
(Corrects spelling of state in headline.)
Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) --Louisiana filed a lawsuit against Transocean Ltd., owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico in April, seeking to have the U.S.-listed company made broadly liable for damages from the oil spill, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing the filing.
Transocean says it’s only responsible for the oil that leaked from its rig, not the millions of gallons that gushed from the fractured well after the explosion; Louisiana is contesting that, saying Transocean breached federal and state environmental laws, the newspaper said.
The state’s filing says the rig contained about 700,000 gallons of fuel when it exploded, and an estimated 210 million gallons of oil flowed into the Gulf afterwards, the WSJ said.
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