* Company agrees to new $5.2bln claim
* BP to take $2.5bln charge in Q2 2016
* Says further claims will not have material impact (Recasts, adds details, background)
By Ron Bousso
LONDON, July 14 (Reuters) - BP on Thursday estimatedcosts from its deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill will total $61.6billion after it agreed to a new $5.2 billion charge it saidlargely drew claims to a close.
The company said it will record an after-tax charge ofaround $2.5 billion in its second quarter as a result of thelatest charge.
This comes more than a year after the British oil and gascompany agreed to pay up to $18.7 billion in penalties to theU.S. government and five states to resolve most claims from thespill in the largest corporate settlement in U.S.history.
The company said in a statement on Thursday that the $5.2billion charge would mark the last major claim and that anyfurther claims would not have a material impact, drawing theDeepwater Horizon incident near a close.
"Over the past few months we've made significant progressresolving outstanding Deepwater Horizon claims and today we canestimate all the material liabilities remaining from theincident," Chief Financial Officer Brian Gilvary said.
BP launched a vast divestment programme following the spilland plans to sell more assets in the coming years in order tocover costs.
The rig explosion on April 20, 2010, the worst offshore oildisaster in U.S. history, killed 11 workers and spewed millionsof barrels of oil onto the shorelines of several states fornearly three months.
BP said in October it would pay more than $20 billion infines to resolve nearly all claims from the spill, and estimatedthat pretax charges related to the spill at $53.8 billion.
BP stock closed down 1.05 percent at 454.65 pence on theLondon Stock Exchange. (Additional reporting by Vidya L Nathan in Bengaluru; Editingby Alexandra Hudson)