BP has been ordered back to court next month as the company prepares to hear how much it faces paying in damages for the Macondo disaster.
The British supermajor and US attorneys will meet in March to discuss how the next phase – looking at penalties for the 2010 fatal accident and oil spill – will unfold.
The ‘penalty phase’ of the trial will determine the size of bill BP faces for the spill under the US Clean Water Act – with a potential £11billion charge.
The company and US representatives will go to court on March 21, with Judge Carl Barbier set to begin ruling on whether BP was negligent and how much oil was actually spilled ahead of the date.
It will come just days before former BP engineer Kurt Mix is sentenced for obstructing justice by deleting messages from his phone relating to the company’s attempts to stop the spill.
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