OIL giant BP has paid out more than £3billion to 204,434 victims of last year’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, fund administrator Kenneth Feinberg said yesterday.
The payouts amount to roughly 25% of the £12billion-plus fund, known as the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, set up a year ago following the April 2010 spill.
So far, 947,892 claims have been filed from all 50 US states and residents of 36 countries.
Nearly all of the successful claimants come from four states: Florida, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.