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On 6 May 2010, BP began documenting the daily response efforts on its web site. [2] On 28 April, the US military joined the cleanup operation. [3] The response increased in scale as the spill volume grew. Initially, BP employed remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROV's), 700 workers, 4 airplanes, and 32 vessels. [4]
BP officials deny that the disease conditions are related to the spill, saying that dolphin deaths actually began being reported before the BP oil spill. [ 198 ] [ 212 ] [ 213 ] By 2013, over 650 dolphins had been found stranded in the oil spill area, a four-fold increase over the historical average. [ 214 ]
President Obama speaking in the Oval Office about the spill. On 30 April 2010, President Barack Obama ordered the federal government to delay issuing new offshore drilling leases until a thorough review determined whether more safety systems were needed [1] and authorized teams to investigate 29 oil rigs in the Gulf in an effort to determine the cause of the disaster. [2]
When the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in 2010 and spewed many millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the disastrous spill damaged the economy, devastated the environment ...
When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of ...
Cleanup of the BP oil spill. In the weeks and months after the disaster, Mattiford, 59, said representatives from BP fanned out across the area handing out money and hiring people to work on ...
[42] BP responded by strongly disagreeing with the Anadarko statement and said that, despite being contractually liable for sharing clean-up costs, Anadarko is "refusing to accept responsibility for oil spill removal costs and damages". [43] BP has sent Anadarko a bill for $272.2 million; Anadarko is "assessing our contractual remedies". [44]
On July 5, BP announced that its one-day oil recovery effort accounted for 24,980 barrels (3,972 m 3) of oil, and the flaring off of 57.1 million cubic feet (1,620,000 m 3) of natural gas. The total oil collection to date for the spill was estimated at 657,300 barrels (104,500 m 3). [23]