Originally Posted by JP-pornshooter

not really
the leaseholder is the responsible party, not the rig.
in this case the leaseholder is BP
also there is already a relief fund set up to cover these type incidents, everytime you buy gas a small percentage goes into this fund, but there could be an issue there since the fund has a cap of $100 million per incident, probably this cleanup will be more expensive to the prediction is that the cap will be challenged in court..