After two months – the US accepts help following the oil spill.

• The US accepts oil spill help from Norway

U.S. has accepted Sweden’s offer of help following the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico - two months after Sweden said yes to their request. Sweden will send aid in the form of oil and fire booms, daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet said Monday.

However, the US has not accepted Sweden's offer to send three vessels specially build for cleaning up oil.

“We do not know why it has taken so long, maybe there have been difficulties with coordination”, Mikael Östlund, press secretary of Minister for Defence Sten Tolgfors, told the newspaper.

In May the United States said it had received offers of aid to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill from a number of countries, including Sweden. Still, the US State Department said there was no immediate need for the assistance offered.

Last week US officials said the country would accept offers from 12 foreign countries, including Norway, to help clean up and contain the BP oil spill.

"The United States will accept 22 offers of assistance from 12 countries and international bodies, including two high speed skimmers and fire containment boom from Japan," a US State Department statement said. "We are currently working out the particular modalities of delivering the offered assistance," it said, adding that details would be "forthcoming once these arrangements are complete."

Meanwhile, BP’s chairman, Swedish businessman Carl-Henric Svanberg, is facing increased critic – and may lose his job.

“Carl-Henric Svanberg, the Swedish chairman, is being singled out for criticism by shareholders for his perceived lack of decisive leadership during the crisis and his failure to support Tony Hayward, the embattled chief executive”, the Financial Times wrote Sunday.

BP's costs arising from the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have rocketed to 3.12 billion dollars, the company revealed on Monday.

"The cost of the response to date amounts to approximately 3.12 billion dollars, including the cost of the spill response, containment, relief well drilling, grants to the Gulf states, claims paid, and federal costs," the company said in a statement.