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The oil slick as seen from space by NASA's Terra satellite on 24 May 2010. The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been described as the worst environmental disaster in the United States, releasing about 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gal; 780,000 m 3) of crude oil making it the largest marine oil spill in history.
Deepwater Horizon was a 10-year-old [30] semi-submersible, mobile, floating, dynamically positioned drilling rig that could operate in waters up to 10,000 ft (3,000 m) deep. [31] Built by South Korean company Hyundai Heavy Industries [ 32 ] and owned by Transocean , the rig operated under the Marshallese flag of convenience , and was chartered ...
This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States, or incidents outside of the United States in which a number of U.S. citizens were killed. Domestic deaths due to war in America are included except the American Civil War.
As Southern California recovers from last month’s devastating wildfires, heavy rain resulted in pockets of flooding, blocked roadways and mud piling up around recent burn scars.
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]
March 2008 – The mineral rights to drill for oil at the Macondo well, located in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the United States sector of the Gulf of Mexico about 41 miles (66 km) off the Louisiana coast, were purchased by BP at the Minerals Management Service's (MMS) Lease Sale No. 206, held in New Orleans.
In 2015, After the Spill, [99] Jon Bowermaster investigates how the disaster affected local economies and the health of humans, animals, and food sources, and with Corexit, where all the oil went, as a follow-up to the pre-spill SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories, in post-production when the Deepwater Horizon exploded. [100] [101] [102] [103]
June 7, 2018 - Seven people were injured in an explosion, at a two-day-old gas well that had recently started drilling to the deep Marcellus shale formation, in Moundsville. [223] December 8, 2020 - An explosion occurred at a Chemours plant in Belle, West Virginia. A plant worker was tragically killed and 3 other people were injured. [224]