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LONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - BP has criticised the new"Deepwater Horizon" film as being an inaccurate Hollywooddramatisation of the deadly oil rig disaster in the Gulf ofMexico in 2010.
"The Deepwater Horizon movie is Hollywood's take on a tragicand complex accident. It is not an accurate portrayal of theevents that led to the accident, our people, or the character ofour company," Geoff Morrell, BP senior vice-president of U.S.communications & external affairs, said in a statement on theBritish oil and gas company's website.
"Deepwater Horizon," which is released in the United Stateson Friday, focuses on the hours before and after the explosionfrom a well blowout on the BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico in April2010, leading to the worst offshore oil disaster in U.S.history. Eleven workers were killed and millions of barrels ofoil spewed onto the shorelines of several states for nearlythree months.
BP, which has had to pay over $55 billion in clean-up costsand fines, said the film "ignores the conclusions reached byevery official investigation: that the accident was the resultof multiple errors made by a number of companies."
Actor Mark Wahlberg, who plays an oil engineer who survivedthe disaster, said the film aimed to honour the 11 men killed inthe accident.
Other than BP, rig operator Transocean and servicescontractor Halliburton were also found to be at fault .
"Coming as it does six-and-a-half years after the accident,the movie also does not reflect who we are today, the lengthswe've gone to restore the Gulf, the work we've done to becomesafer, and the trust we've earned back around the world." BPsaid in the statement. (Reporting by Ron Bousso; Editing by Greg Mahlich)
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