BP engineer trial date set

Mixed fortunes: Former BP engineer Kurt Mix will face court again in February.

A former BP engineer who is the first individual to face criminal charges related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been scheduled to face a jury trial on 25 February

Kurt Mix, the former engineer, was charged in April with two counts of obstruction of justice for allegedly deleting records related to the amount of oil that flowed from BP's Macondo well following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. He has pleaded not guilty, Reuters reported.

The trial date set by US District Judge Stanwood Duval in New Orleans is six weeks after the scheduled 14 January start of a trial before another judge to assign blame for the spill among BP and its drilling partners.

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