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Transocean was described as having had previous problems with both cement seals (in 2005) and blowout preventers (in 2006), both the suspected cause of the Deepwater Horizon disaster; however, the company stated that cementing was a task completed by third party laborers, and that it had "a strong maintenance program to keep blowout preventers ...
Caused in the aftermath of a blowout and explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, the United States federal government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 million barrels (210,000,000 US gal; 780,000 m 3). [3]
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]
Transocean's (RIG) Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico more than four months ago, killing 11 of its crew and injuring 17. But the investigation into what happened on ...
BP (BP) said Friday that the Deepwater Horizon rig's blowout preventer, which failed to prevent oil from the Macondo well from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, has been removed from atop the well.
Guest columnists Hermina Glass-Hill and Claudia Davis look back on the 12 years since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and what it means for Georgia.
The blowout caused the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, a mobile offshore drilling platform owned by Transocean and under lease to BP at the time of the blowout. While the exact volume of oil spilled is unknown, as of June 3, 2010 [update] , the United States Geological Survey Flow Rate Technical Group has placed the estimate at between ...
The Deepwater Horizon investigation refers to multiple inquiries conducted in response to the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which occurred on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. The disaster, caused by a blowout on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, resulted in the largest marine oil spill in history, with significant ...