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March 8 – Target date for the completion of the well which had been budgeted to cost $96 million. [11] March 17 – BP Chief Tony Hayward sells one third of his BP stock (223,288 shares). [16] Closing BP price on March 17 on the New York Stock Exchange is 58.15. March – An accident damages a gasket on the blowout preventer on the rig. [17]
Deepwater Horizon drilling rig before the explosion. In February 2009, BP filed a 52-page exploration and environmental impact plan for the Macondo well with the Minerals Management Service (MMS), an arm of the United States Department of the Interior that oversees offshore drilling.
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 million barrels ...
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 ...
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]
An ill-advised attempt to evade environmental laws may have been the major cause of BP's (BP) Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion, testimony before a government panel revealed on Monday. The ...
Workers file $10 billion suit against BP over a Spring 2010 incident in which 500,000 pounds of pollutants, including benzene were released at the Texas City, Texas refinery that was the site of the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion. [22] BP completes cementing of the well from the top at 2:15 p.m. CDT. [23] August 6
New sealing cap. July 11 Discoverer Inspiration delivers the new cap to the site and Discoverer Enterprise moves off its site above the leak. [56] [57]National Center for Atmospheric Research and University of Hawaii at Manoa release studies saying that if the spill continues to September 17 oil could reach the Carolinas, Georgia and Northern Florida by October 2010.