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Xinhua Houston, on Sept. 3 BP said the company’s response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill expenditure has risen to eight billion dollars.
BP said in a news release that day, this figure includes the cost of leakage response, relief well drilling costs, the cost of static off method, on the Gulf Coast states of subsidies and compensation costs, which totaled 399 million dollars of compensation .
BP said the stress tests showed that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been effectively closed cement.
BP now plans to “Deep Horizon” failure of the BOP drilling platform device replaced DDII drilling platform blowout preventer device in order to resume drilling relief wells work.
The company said the oil control wells was removable cover on Sept 2, the next step will be dismantling the old BOP equipment and install new equipment.
BP plans to restart relief well operation in the near future. The company said that according to weather conditions, relief well may be achieved in mid-September and oil spill docking.
