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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.
A camera live-streamed the rupture on cable news, showing the world in real time gushing oil that wouldn’t stop. Oil floated on the Gulf and washed ashore, covering plants, birds and other animals.
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 pipeline was restarted following repairs, integrity testing, and regulatory approval of the restart plan, the source said. The company has been cleaning up the spill since Sunday with the U.S ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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]