BP Says U.S. Withholding Evidence of Extent of Oil Spill
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BP Plc said the U.S. government is withholding evidence that would show the oil spill from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico was smaller than claimed.
BP has identified 10,000 documents, out of more than 80,000 the government sought to suppress, that relate to estimates of the April 2010 spill, the London-based oil producer said in a filing yesterday in federal court in New Orleans. The U.S. estimated in August 2010 that 4.9 million barrels of oil, plus or minus 10 percent, spilled into the Gulf after a rig exploded.