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JAKARTA: BP Plc, business partners, such as Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Mitsui & Co., should share in the cost of damages caused by oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.
In the event Political Capital With Al Hunt on Bloomberg TV, Washington, U.S. House of Representatives member from the Democrat Edward Markey said the two companies can not escape that responsibility.

After meeting with Barack Obama on June 16, BP agreed to allocate funds amounting to U.S. $ 20 billion in a special account for four years. Account was registered under the supervision of a lawyer Kenneth Feinberg.

However, Obama said it was not enough funds to cover all the needs of BP's costs are the responsibility of cleaning up the environment and the changing economic damages, also does not necessarily cease to demand that the British public to the company.

Markey said that BP would not be able to clean up oil spill after the explosion on 20 April, so the Panel Chairperson Environment and Energy Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives asking Obama to open a maritime boundary that foreign vessels can contribute to clean the bay.

Anadarko, based in Woodlands, Texas, has a 25% stake in the project of the bay, while Japan's largest trading company Mitsui, has a 70% stake in Mitsui Oil Exploration Co.. Mitsui Oil Exploration Co. has a 10% stake in the project.

"BP's business partners must be prepared to finance the repair of damage that secrete oil at around 60,000 per day. The worst conditions have occurred. They get the worst effects of the effort to get the biggest benefit, "said Markey. By: Erna Sari Girsang (Bisnis.com)

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