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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
Location: Macondo Prospect (Mississippi Canyon Block 252), in the North-central Gulf of Mexico, United States (south of Louisiana): Coordinates: 1]: Date: 20 April – 19 September 2010 (4 months, 4 weeks and 2 days): Cause; Cause: Wellhead blowout: Casualties: 11 people killed 17 people injured: Operator: Transocean under contract for BP [2]: Spill characteristics; Volume: 4.9 MMbbl ...
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]
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's state energy company Pemex said on Saturday that a fire broke out at one of its platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, adding that it had activated emergency protocols ...
At least one contractor was killed after a fire struck an offshore platform operated by Mexico's national oil company Pemex, the firm said in a statement on Sunday, adding that two others were in ...
Between 2005 and 2007, Transocean was the owner of 30% of oil rigs active in the Gulf, and 33% of the incidents that triggered a Minerals Management Service (MMS) investigation took place on Transocean rigs. However, in the 3 years from 2008 to February 15, 2010, Transocean was the owner of 42% of rigs active in the Gulf but was responsible for ...
The rig exploded and caught on fire on September 2, 2010. [7] [8] The platform was off-line for maintenance at the time the incident occurred. [9] The flames from the explosion could be seen 100 mi (160 km) off the Louisiana coast. [5] [10] Thirteen workers were occupying the platform at the time of the explosion. All of the workers were ...
The fire aboard the Mariner Energy (ME) oil platform 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay, La., at first appeared to be ... No one died in the second major Gulf of Mexico oil rig mishap this year, an ...