NEW YORK (AP) -- BP PLC said Tuesday it will sell assets in the U.S., Canada and Egypt to Apache Corp. for $7 billion to help pay the costs from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
英国石油公司周二表示,将以70亿美元向阿帕奇公司出售美国、加拿大和埃及的资产,用于支付墨西哥湾漏油事件的费用。
BP PLC Chief Executive Tony Hayward has come under mounting pressure over the spill, caused after a drilling rig BP was leasing, the Deepwater Horizon, caught fire and sank last month.
自上个月英国石油公司「深海地平线」鉆油台爆炸起火沉没后,公司行政总裁托尼·海沃德因此次泄露所承担的压力越来越大。
BP PLC engineers remotely guiding robot submersibles had worked since Friday to place the tube into a 21-inch pipe nearly a mile below the sea.
BP公司的工程师从周五开始远程指导机器人深潜器将导管放入在海面下约一英里的一条21英寸的管道。