BP commits to Gulf of Mexico as $9bn platform comes online

BP has started pumping crude through a new $9bn offshore platform in the oil-rich US Gulf of Mexico as it slows its transition out of fossil fuels amid growing energy security fears.

The new Argos platform is the first the company has deployed in the region since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010, which killed 11 people and unleashed the worst offshore environmental disaster in US history.