London (Reuters) - BP (BP) Fund(L) put in place to deal with compensation claims after the Gulf of the Mexico of the the 2010 oil spill begins to slow down after paying about $ 4 billion to 20 billion dollars set aside by the oil firm, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
The newspaper said that Ken Feinberg, the lawyer in charge of the Fund, had treated more than 80 per cent of the claims made by those who have suffered economically after the accident of Deepwater Horizon and until now used a little more than $ 4 billion.
"I don't envision a flood of new claims," the document CITES said Feinberg. Eight regional offices had been closed, it added.
Oil major has established the Fund in June last for victims as fishermen and property owners.
Feinberg said in an interview with Reuters in April, the Fund "worked as expected," Although some advocacy groups and local officials argued that the money was distributed slowly and unfairly.
BP (BP).(N) has estimated that the total of the costs of recovery of the well, clean up the damage caused by the largest oil spill ever off the coasts of America and to compensate those affected will be more than 41 billion dollars, including fines.
(Reported by Rosalba O'Brien.) (Editing by Jon Loades-Carter)
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