BP plc (NYSE: BP) is reduced to the background loss of billions of dollars. BP plc (NYSE: BP) shares up 40.14 points, losing -1.76%. BP costs of responding to the accident in the Gulf of Mexico has accounted for 6,1 billion dollars.
British Petroleum assesses the damage of the oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico to 1.6 billion dollars nearly, the company said. The total amount could reach $ 3 billion. This amount includes the cost of spill, in the elimination of the accident at the well, and the payment of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
The emergency is declared in the US states Alabama and Mississippi because of the accident in the floating platform Deepwater Horizon. Before the emergency was declared in Louisiana and Florida.
The authorities of the US state Louisiana have declared the emergency. Oil spot appeared in result of accident on floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico and has already reached the mouth of Mississippi river. This ecological disaster is going to become the greatest in country’s history.
The Gulf of Mexico suffers of ecological disaster. The floating oil platform burst and sank there a week ago continues spreading. There are victims: 120 workers were saved while the fate of 11 is still unknown.
A powerful tornado crossed the Mississippi: 10 people were killed. An unusually powerful tornado swept walked across the Mississippi and caused the deaths of at least ten people and inflicted extensive damage – in hundreds of buildings ripped off roofs, knocked down power lines, blocked a highway. One of the cars with people tornado tossed into the air and knocked on the roof of the restaurant.
On January, 6, Microsoft Corporation presented its new product Hewlett-Packard Co tablet computer. It was unveiled as a new invention although essentially it is a big smart phone which is being widely used.