US fines Transocean $1.4 bn over Gulf oil disaster

Thursday, January 3, 2013 - 13:20 in Earth & Climate

The United States hit drilling rig operator Transocean Deepwater with $1.4 billion in criminal and civil fines Thursday for its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil leak disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

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