BP on Tuesday announced the completion of active Gulf Coast shoreline cleanup operations in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The Coast Guard ended patrols and operations on a three-mile stretch of Louisiana shoreline, concluding a mammoth cleanup operation that cost BP $14 billion and 70 million personnel hours. Cleanup activities in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi ended last year. Both BP and the Coast Guard will continue to have resources at the ready to respond to any reports of oil from the blown-out Macondo well in the Gulf Coast region.
BP in March bid on gulf drilling contracts for the first time in nearly two years after the EPA removed a ban that suspended the firm from doing business with the federal government.
