New York, December 6 (FinanceEnquiry.com) - BP (NYSE: BP) accused Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) of intentionally destroying incriminatory evidence regarding possible problems arising out of the use of inferior quality cement slurry that was poured into drilling the deep sea Macondo oil well that blew out last year, in a court filing on Monday. The blow out had caused the worst U.S. offshore oil spill. It is essential that an oil well is cemented properly to avoid blowouts.

BP also said in its filing in a New Orleans federal court that Halliburton failed to produce incriminating computer modeling evidence and of claiming the modeling is gone. It requested the U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to appoint a court-sponsored computer forensic team to recover the missing modeling results and to penalize Halliburton.

Halliburton told certain media outlets that there was no truth in the accusations. There has been a bitter war over blame for the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon blast between BP and contractors, Halliburton and Transocean. The blast had killed 11 workers and to the release of 206 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The entire bill for emergency response and cleanup so far has been borne by BP.

On February 27, 2012 the first trial over the Deepwater Horizon disaster will take place in New Orleans to determine the liability of each company involved in the drilling operations at the blast site.