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NEW YORK (AFP) - – BP has tapped financial advisers at Goldman Sachs, Blackstone Group and Credit Suisse as pressure mounts on the British energy giant over the devastating Gulf of Mexico oil spill, US media reported Monday.
 
A BP spokesman denied the reports, saying the group did not want to reveal "who are our advisors and on what they are advising us."
 
"There's no truth that we have hired bankers with a defense mandate," he added.
 
A person close to the matter confirmed that BP had hired Blackstone financial advisers, but spokespeople for Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse did not immediately respond to questions for comment.
 
The New York Times said on its website that BP had brought in the advisers to study how to handle the firm's "mounting liabilities" nearly two months into the massive spill caused by a ruptured well deep underwater on the seafloor.
 
As complaints and lawsuits pile up against the company, President Barack Obama's administration has also turned the screws on BP, demanding that it not only pay to clean up the Gulf Coast's fragile shorelines but also compensate local workers for loss of employment related to the catastrophe.
 
The Obama administration has also pressured the firm to place funds in an escrow account to fund any potential liability claims, and to hold off on disbursing dividends.
 
The oil spill has already cost BP some 1.6 billion dollars since the Deepwater Horizon rig it leased sank on April 22, and may have to pay out several more billions.
 
Fox Business television said bankers estimate the final bill could reach 20 billion dollars paid off over several years, thus helping eliminate the impact on the firm's bottom line.
 
It said BP hired the financial advisers to develop a strategy on how it could pay all liabilities over the next five years. Such a move could help BP ward off any hostile takeover or a bankruptcy filing, as the company's share price and value tumble.
 
According to Fox Business, a bankruptcy filing "is not completely off the table," though bankers say it is a "low probability."
 
A spokeswoman at BP's London headquarters denied any talk of bankruptcy.
 
She noted that in a March strategy presentation, BP said its cash inflows and outflows were balanced at an oil price of 60 dollars per barrel. The price of oil was about 75 dollars a barrel in New York.
 
"Under the current trading environment, we are generating significant additional cash," she added.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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