BP, which said it will pay for all cleanup costs, is still in the midst of several efforts aimed at stopping the leak.
Like BP, which said Thursday it had finally stopped the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, Goldman Sachs has moved to cap its own public relations nightmare.
BP, which jointly operates the plant, said it had begun to evacuate employees from Algeria.
BP, which owns part of the facility, said there was "a small number" of its employees "whose current location and situation remain uncertain".
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Stephen Pope, global equity strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald in London, says there are still a number of undetermined issues, including the pressure reading which is still short of the level that BP itself has said it needs to see to declare the well sound.
In its investigation of the explosion aboard a rig leased from Transocean ( RIG), which killed 11 and resulted in a major environmental disaster, BP said a variety of factors were to blame, and looked to share responsibility with it partners and contractors at the site.
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However, chief executive Bob Dudley said the figures showed "strong progress" at BP, which is raising the quarterly dividend by 12.5%.
In May, BP accepted responsibility for a "series of failures" by staff which it said led to a fatal explosion at its largest US refinery.
Analysts said that BP will provide much needed deepwater exploration expertise to Reliance which has been struggling to ramp up production at KG-D6, its biggest block which lies off the east coast.
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In a statement issued Tuesday, BP said it was cooperating with Justice Department and other investigations into the spill, which lasted nearly three months.
"BP is a company which is present in Azerbaijan almost since the very beginning of our independence, " he said.
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