Jan 29 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has accepted an agreement byBP Plc to plead guilty for its role in the DeepwaterHorizon disaster and pay $4.5 billion in penalties for the worstoffshore oil spill in U.S. history.
The April 2010 explosion on a rig in the Gulf of Mexicokilled 11 workers. The mile-deep (1.6 km) Macondo oil well thenspewed 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf over 87 days,fouling shorelines from Texas to Florida.
"The judge has accepted the plea," a court official said onTuesday.