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The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill resulted in an onslaught of litigation. Litigation commenced almost immediately after the explosion and oil spill. By May 27, 2010, Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon, said in testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee that it was defendant in 120 lawsuits, of which more than 80 were class actions seeking payment for financial ...
Hornbeck Offshore Services v. Salazar is an ongoing case in United States federal court. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the subsequent oil spill, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued a six-month moratorium on exploratory drilling in deep water. Plaintiffs filed suit challenging the moratorium.
The statute has been invoked to limit the liability of certain parties in the sinking of RMS Titanic (1912), the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010), and the sinking of MV Conception (2019). [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] In the case of RMS Titanic , the district court judge initially ruled that British limitation of liability law would apply, [ 27 ] but ...
Halliburton Resolves Department of Justice Deepwater Horizon Investigation HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Halliburton Company (NYS: HAL) today announced that it has reached an agreement with the U.S ...
Halliburton Deepwater Horizon Investigation Closed HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Halliburton (NYS: HAL) announced today that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has closed its investigation ...
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]
In December 2015, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ordered Anadarko to pay a civil fine under the Clean Water Act of $159.5 million, or $50 per barrel of oil spilled as a result of the Deepwater Horizon explosion. [33] The judge stated Anadarko was not at fault for the spill, but the company's 25% ownership stake made it responsible.
The 2015 film The Runner, directed by Austin Stark and starring Nicolas Cage, is a fictional story of a politician and his family set in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. [118] [119] In 2016, Deepwater Horizon, a film based on the explosion, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg was released. [120]