In the interest of justice” a U.S. court dismissed manslaughter charges against BP engineers on the Deepwater Horizon rig at the time of the 2010 accident. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana dismissed charges filed against BP engineers Robert Kaluza and Donald Vildrine, who were tasked with testing processes at the Macondo well that eventually failed beneath the Deepwater Horizon rig. A cascading string of events led to what the industry calls a blowout, which triggered explosions on rig that eventually left 11 workers dead and sparked the worst accidental offshore oil spill in the history of the industry. Defendants Kaluza and Vildrine were charged with 11 counts of involuntary manslaughter and one charge of […]