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Spillcam was a live feed of the leak site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The live footage first became available to the general public on May 12 when BP was pressured by politicians to release the footage.
May 21 – BP begins live underwater video broadcasts of the leak. [64] Flow Rate Technical Group established for "scientifically validated information about the amount of oil flowing from BP s leaking oil well." [26] The average daily oil collection rates is 2,000 barrels (84,000 US gallons; 320,000 litres) a day. [65] [66]
The first video images were released on 12 May, and further video images were released by members of Congress who had been given access to them by BP. [ 172 ] During the spill response operations, at the request of the Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implemented a 900 sq mi (2,300 km 2 ) temporary flight restriction zone ...
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]
With BP's (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in its 49th day, efforts to control the oil flow and the spilled crude continue to be hampered by a lack of information -- and transparency ...
It's been nearly five months since the start of the massive BP (BP) oil spill, and many questions about its long-term environmental impact are still unanswered. An estimated 4.9 million barrels of ...
Cleanup of the BP oil spill. In the weeks and months after the disaster, Mattiford, 59, said representatives from BP fanned out across the area handing out money and hiring people to work on ...
BP releases 24 ROV live streaming video feeds (2 each from the Boa Deep C, Discoverer Enterprise, Ocean Intervention III, Q4000, Skandi Neptune, Viking Poseidon). [9] June 4; Tar balls arrive on beaches in Pensacola, Florida. [10] However, Escambia County, Florida officials do not close the beaches. [11]