Ex Rig Supervisor Of BP Plc Found Not Guilty
The former rig supervisor for BP rig has been found not guilty for the oil spill in 2010
BP Plc., has been dealing with a oil spill lawsuit since 2010, a manager and supervisor of the rig, Robert Kaluza, was found not guilty on Thursday in a court in New Orleans on February 25th. Robert was facing charges for the violation and polluting United States due to the worst oil spill ever witnessed, which took 11 lives and released huge amounts of barrels of oil into the ocean.
The Oil and Gas Company has been dealing with the oil spill for a very long time, with it, four of its employees had been dealing with criminal charges. Robert was the last of these four workers who was facing charges in relation to the oil spill. Robert with another worker was facing these charges for negligence of warning and safety signs which partially caused the explosion of the company’s Macondo well leading to the spill of millions of barrel of crude oil right into the Gulf of Mexico.
The oil company faced the tragic oil spill in 2010, April while Robert Kaluza was on duty and was unfortunately the supervisor for that day. Lucky for him, Robert was found to be not guilty, if this would not have happened, this former employee would have had to pay a huge penalty along with a year of imprisonment. The other supervisor for the night time was, Donald Vidrine, who was also pressed with the similar charges. Both of these former supervisors were facing a lawsuit since 2012, allegations were that they were did not take seriously that pressure testing and did not thoroughly check and evaluate the pressure of oil and gas which caused the explosion and led to the loss of lives and environment damage.
The oil giant company’s former supervisors when the explosion took place, both said that the rig was safe and there was no leakage witnessed, which led to them facing huge severe charges. These charges have now been dropped. The oil and gas organization, BP Plc. had to pay an amount of $20.8 billion as settlement to the federal and local government for the damage it had caused from the explosion and the spill.
Donald and Robert faced charges of manslaughter and violation of the Clean Water Act, which has now been dropped, the government had already dropped the charges of manslaughter. This was because after the reviews it was concluded that the lawsuit was not meeting the standards of gross negligence. The oil company is still waiting for a ruling from New Orleans judge, which is expected to come out this year, regarding the fine which comes under the United States Clean Water Act.
