The legal battle over last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is turning increasingly bitter.
Thus, the Financial Times is today reporting on British Petroleum (BP) allegations that Halliburton, the company which provided the concrete for the Deep Water Horizon rig, has "destroyed test results and computer analysis" to reduce the risk of having the potentially damaging evidence presented at trial.
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