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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.
December 15 – According to a feature Associated Press story on the homepage of Time Magazine, the U.S. federal government is suing BP Exploration and Production, Inc., and eight other corporations, for unlimited liability, in an effort to have them pay for the massive expenses involved in the cleanup and environmental recovery from the spill ...
He found it difficult to promote its products, until BP placed an order for several of the company's devices in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] OTS's largest machine, the V20, can clean up to 210,000 US gallons (790,000 L) of oily water per day.
To break up oil, roughly 1.8 million gallons of Corexit were dropped from planes and sprayed from boats — far more than previous U.S. oil spills. The manufacturer said it was safer than dish soap.
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Oil Spill Prevention and Response: A Selected Bibliography on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill; Offshore Technology Resource Center. 2001. Comparative Risk Analysis for Deepwater Production Systems; Oil & Gas UK, Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group (OSPRAG) International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC), 1969–present.
Wildlife operations crews work to protect snowy plover nests while clean-up crews remove oil from the beach on May 26, 2015. The spill cleanup occurred during the nesting season for snowy plovers, so special precautions were necessary while cleaning up tar balls. The birds are often found on the beaches along the coast of the Oxnard plain.
The three basic approaches for removing the oil from the water were: burning the oil, filtering offshore, and collecting for later processing. On 28 April 2010, the USCG announced plans to corral and burn off up to 1,000 barrels (160 m 3) of oil each day.