BP Decries 'Deepwater Horizon' Film as Inaccurate Reuters
go to original October 1, 2016

BP has criticized the new “Deepwater Horizon” film as being an inaccurate Hollywood dramatization of the deadly oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

“The Deepwater Horizon movie is Hollywood’s take on a tragic and complex accident. It is not an accurate portrayal of the events that led to the accident, our people, or the character of our company,” Geoff Morrell, BP senior vice-president of U.S. communications & external affairs, said in a statement on the British oil and gas company’s website.

“Deepwater Horizon,” which is released in the United States on Friday, focuses on the hours before and after the explosion from a well blowout on the BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, leading to the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S. history. Eleven workers were killed and millions of barrels of oil spewed onto the shorelines of several states for nearly three months.

BP, which has had to pay over $55 billion in clean-up costs and fines, said the film “ignores the conclusions reached by every official investigation: that the accident was the result of multiple errors made by a number of companies.”

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