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BP officials deny that the disease conditions are related to the spill, saying that dolphin deaths actually began being reported before the BP oil spill. [ 198 ] [ 212 ] [ 213 ] By 2013, over 650 dolphins had been found stranded in the oil spill area, a four-fold increase over the historical average. [ 214 ]
In June 2010, Steve Goodie, [121] a comedy musician, wrote parody lyrics to The Doobie Brothers' hit song "Black Water" related to the BP oil spill. "Black Water [BP Version]" also had a YouTube video [122] and was a Top Ten hit on The Dr. Demento radio show. In 2011, Rise Against released a song titled "Help Is on the Way" on their album Endgame.
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]
When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of ...
When the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in 2010 and spewed many millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the disastrous spill damaged the economy, devastated the environment ...
National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling begins two days of hearings at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside [109] July 15 – BP test cuts off all oil pouring into the Gulf at 2:25 pm. [110] However Thad Allen cautions that it is likely that containment operations will resume following the test. [111]
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 ...
Oil spill data are available on Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Spill Analysis website ; August 2001 through 2012 – Trinidad, earthquakes up to magnitude 5.3; February 2004 - Williams was fined $30,000 for a fire at a well in Parachute. [24] February 26, 2006 – Fire at a gas compressor station, southwest of Fort Lupton [25]