Another change was that the importance of process safety -- focusing on an operation as a whole , rather than small individual accidents -- was one of the lessons of the Texas City disaster and has now been emphasised in the drilling operations as well as BP 's refineries , Mr Morrison said . UK oil group claims it has drilling safety systems ahead of any other company 's . BP blamed in large part for 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Gulf of Mexico . Comment: DoJ : BP acted with `` gross negligence '' for its part in Deepwater Horizon spill .
UK oil group claims it has drilling safety systems ahead of any other company 's . BP blamed in large part for 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Gulf of Mexico . Comment: DoJ : BP acted with `` gross negligence '' for its part in Deepwater Horizon spill .