LONDON, July 28 (Reuters) - Oil major BP has reachedan additional $1 billion settlement agreement for claims fromlocal U.S. government entities regarding the Gulf of Mexico oilspill, bringing the total bill to $54.6 billion, it said onTuesday.
"As part of the agreements in principle, BP agreed to pay upto $1 billion to resolve claims made by local governmententities," the company said in its second-quarter resultsupdate.
On July 2, the oil company reached a milestone $18.7 billionsettlement with the U.S. government and five states to resolveclaims from the deadly 2010 Macondo oil spill. (Reporting by Karolin Schaps; editing by Jason Neely)