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The platform is located in the Perdido fold belt which is a rich discovery of crude oil and natural gas. The Perdido spar began production in 2010 and its peak production is 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent (c. 16 000 m 3 /d ) and 200 million cubic feet of gas per day (c. 5.7 × 10 6 m 3 /d ).
Before she could make sense of it – a rig shaking shock that came out of nowhere – magenta warnings began flashing on her screen. Magenta meant the most dangerous level of combustible gas intrusion. [24] 9:56 pm CDT – Gas from the wellbore erupts through the rig floor and then catches fire. The explosion kills 11 platform workers and ...
The platform was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and could operate in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep, to a maximum drill depth of 30,000 feet (9,100 m). [5] Press releases from Transocean state the platform had historically been used for deeper wells, including the deepest underwater gas and oil well. [6]
Still reeling from the devastation caused by the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, the U.S. got another scare Thursday as the Coast Guard responded to another rig explosion in the Gulf of ...
The platform remains out of operation, with about 421,000 barrels per day of oil lost and 125 wells offline, he said. Five killed in Mexico's oil platform fire, hammering Mexico output Skip to ...
An out-of-control rig fire off off the coast of Western Australia could prove a clarion call for the hazards of deep-sea drilling. Since Monday, a fire emanating from an oil and gas wellhead in ...
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 oil leak was discovered on the afternoon of 22 April 2010 when a large oil slick began to spread at the former rig site. [41] The oil flowed for 87 days. BP originally estimated a flow rate of 1,000 to 5,000 barrels per day [bbl/d] (160 to 790 m 3 /d).