Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Workers carry bags of seagrass mixed with tar balls from a beach at St Andrews State Park in Panama City, June 21st, 2010. The tar balls are suspected to be from the BP oils spill in the Gulf of ...
"The transition of day-to-day handling by BP Managing Director Robert Dudley of the oil spill cleanup has started," she says. [ 135 ] BBC airs documentary in which Tyrone Benton, a robot operator, says the robot cameras on the Deepwater Horizon spotted a leak in early April two weeks before the accident in a control pod on the BOP. [ 136 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 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 ...
Barack Obama and daughter Sasha swim at Alligator Point in Panama City Beach, Fla., Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. August 2; Flow Rate Technical Group reports that the well initially was dumping 62,000 barrels of oil per day initially after the spill and that it dwindled to 53,000 barrels when it was capped as the well was depleted. This means that 4 ...
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 ...
Finally, 12 years after the spill, BP agreed to pay Maas $110,000, according to a confidential copy provided to The Associated Press. The company denied liability for his illness.
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]
A tropical storm named Alex has built to the east of the Gulf of Mexico, where oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon explosion has been spewing into the ocean for some two months now. If the storm ...