BP Plc won’t face a $256 billion lawsuit brought by a whistle-blower who claimed the company’s Atlantis oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico was unsafe (U.S. ex. rel. Abbott v. BP Exploration & Prod. Inc.dismissed).
Kenneth Abbott, a former BP contractor, and Food & Water Watch, an environmental group, sued in 2009 to shut down BP’s second-largest Gulf platform. They said engineering drawings for the system’s subsea components lacked required safety approvals.
They also sought to force BP to pay triple damages on the full $88.8 billion estimated value of the Atlantis field, saying the company ...
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