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Damage has been reported across Florida's Panhandle, especially in Lower Grand Lagoon from possible tornadoes. Videos, photos posted across social media after reported tornadoes in Florida Skip to ...
Location: Macondo Prospect (Mississippi Canyon Block 252), in the North-central Gulf of Mexico, United States (south of Louisiana): Coordinates: 1]: Date: 20 April – 19 September 2010 (4 months, 4 weeks and 2 days): Cause; Cause: Wellhead blowout: Casualties: 11 people killed 17 people injured: Operator: Transocean under contract for BP [2]: Spill characteristics; Volume: 4.9 MMbbl ...
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On April 20, 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. [8]
The same blowout that caused the explosion also caused an oil well fire and a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the world, and the largest environmental disaster in United States history. [2] [3] [4]
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 ...
The escrow fund established to compensate victims of BP's (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been criticized for processing claims too slowly. Kenneth Feinberg (pictured ...
National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling begins two days of hearings at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside [109] July 15 – BP test cuts off all oil pouring into the Gulf at 2:25 pm. [110] However Thad Allen cautions that it is likely that containment operations will resume following the test. [111]
New estimates of the flow of oil released from the broken well in the Gulf of Mexico confirm that twice as much oil as was previously reported has been spewing into ocean, making the spill the ...