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On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire occurred on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field about 40 miles (64 km) southeast off the Louisiana coast.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 February 2025. Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico This article is about the oil spill itself. For the initial explosion, see Deepwater Horizon explosion. For other related articles, see Deepwater Horizon (disambiguation). Deepwater Horizon oil spill As seen from space by the Terra satellite on 24 May ...
The tanker Loch Rannoch is to be brought in by June to begin offloading the oil. [ 43 ] In complying with a request from BP to Twitter parody site BPGlobalPR which has 145,000 follower, the site posts "We are not associated with Beyond Petroleum, the company that has been destroying the Gulf of Mexico for 51 days."
The Mariner Energy Resources (ME) oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday ripped open the debate again over whether a six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling should be extended and ...
When BP (BP) launched its probe into the Gulf of Mexico rig explosion, the goal was to internally investigate the disaster impartially. But BP's lawyers helped prepare the report, which raises ...
The Juba tank truck explosion was a tank truck explosion that occurred on 17 September 2015 in a suburb of Juba, the capital of South Sudan. It killed an estimated 176 people, most casualties coming from the crowd that had converged on the scene of the leaking tank truck. The Red Cross dispatched aid to the suburb of Maridi after the incident.
The explosion of an oil pipeline in China's. In Asia Monday Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index slid 0.8% to 20,091 and China's Shanghai Composite Index rose 2.1% to 2,475. Japan's stock exchange was ...
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 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]