A federal court in the US has given a final approval to BP's settlement relating to the damages arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

U. S. District Judge Carl Barbier has given approval to a settlement reached between oil giant, British Petroleum and businesses and individuals who suffered losses because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. BP will pay to settle more than 100,000 claims in a massive class action lawsuit in the area. Judge Barbier has said in a ruling that the proposed terms of the class settlement have been approved by the court.

BP has said that it will pay about $7.8 billion to meet the economic and medical claims from more than 100,000 businesses and individuals who were affected by the country's worst offshore oil spill. The settlement does not have a fixed limit indicating that the company might pay a higher or a lower amount.

U. S. District Judge Carl Barbier wrote, "None of the objections, whether filed on the objections docket or elsewhere, have shown the Settlement to be anything other than fair, reasonable, and adequate." The 125-page ruling was released this Friday evening.

The Spill was caused by plosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in April 2010. Lawyers for the committee, Stephen Herman and James Roy have said that the compensation amounting to about $7.8 billion will compensate hundreds of thousands of victims of the accident that also affected the regions environment.