Mexico City, December 2 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday the petition of appeal submitted by three Mexican states demanding compensation from British oil giant BP and other companies for the oil spill that devastated the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

The court ruled that the states of Veracruz, Tamaulipas and Quintana Roo could not present the appeal, arguing the affected regions belonged to the Mexican federal government, which filed a similar lawsuit in 2013, that is still pending.
   
The states filed the lawsuit five years ago with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

The 2010 oil disaster killed 11 workers and spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of three months, making it the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. In total, an estimated 4.9 million barrels were spilled.