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BP to set aside $100 million for unemployed rig workers
BP Plc said on Friday it will establish a $100 million fund to help drilling rig workers in the Gulf of Mexico who are unemployed as a result of the company's oil leak. After BP's Macondo well ruptured on April 20..., the U.S. government halted deep-water drilling for six months. The moratorium...has idled dozens of rigs in the Gulf and companies are moving vessels to work in other parts of the world. The funds will be administered through the non-profit Baton Rouge Area Foundation in Louisiana and are not part of the company's $20 billion compensation fund...