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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 MMbbl (210,000,000 US gal; 780,000 m 3). [ 3 ] After several failed efforts to contain the flow, the well was declared sealed on 19 September 2010. [ 10 ]
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]
June. June 1 – Oil began washing up on the beaches of Gulf Islands National Seashore. [88] June 4 – Tar balls arrive on beaches in Pensacola, Florida. [89] June 5 – Obama makes third trip to Louisiana since the disaster began, visits Grand Isle, Louisiana for the second time in two weeks.
Once praised, settlement to help sickened BP oil spill workers leaves most with nearly nothing. TRAVIS LOLLER and MICHAEL PHILLIS. April 18, 2024 at 6:34 AM. When a deadly explosion destroyed BP ...
Takeaways from AP's story on the BP oil spill medical settlement's shortcomings. When the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in 2010 and spewed many millions of gallons of oil into the ...
On 25 June, BP's market value reached a 1-year low. The company's total value lost since 20 April was $105 billion. Investors saw their holdings in BP shrink to $27.02, a nearly 54% loss of value in 2010. [65] A month later, the company's loss in market value totalled $60 billion, a 35% decline since the explosion.
But after more than a decade of litigation following the largest offshore U.S. oil spill, Maas may well be the only person to receive a BP settlement for his injuries through an individual lawsuit ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a major industrial accident on the Gulf of Mexico, which killed 11 people and injured 16 others, leaked about 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gal; 780,000 m 3) of oil with plus or minus 10% uncertainty, [14] which makes it the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry ...