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Report says BP is suspected responsible party in cause of new Gulf leak

The Coast Guard's National Response Center received an anonymous report naming BP as a responsible party in the source of a sheen spotted this week in the Gulf of Mexico.

The report says that a semisubmersible determined that a plugged abandoned well was leaking with footage captured that showed a release.

BP claimed that the leak was not connected to any of its operations.

"It couldn't have been from anything of ours," said company spokesman Daren Beaudo.

The sheen was approximately 100 miles from the Louisiana coast and 172 miles from the Macondo well, which was the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in April, 2010 that killed 11 workers and triggered the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.

Source: Associated Press

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