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To make matters worse, recovery efforts by government officials were targeted toward surface level spill instead of deepwater spills, diminished the efficacy of the disaster response. [15] It was recorded in one study a death estimation of 250,000 seabirds, 2,800 otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles, up to 22 killer whales, and billions of ...
On April 20, 2010, the United States watched as over 200 million gallons of crude oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.For three months various efforts were taken to cap the broken well and were finally successful on September 19, 2010.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico This article is about the oil spill itself. For the initial explosion, see Deepwater Horizon explosion. For other related articles, see Deepwater Horizon (disambiguation). Deepwater Horizon oil spill As seen from space by the Terra satellite on 24 May ...
Guest columnists Hermina Glass-Hill and Claudia Davis look back on the 12 years since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and what it means for Georgia.
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 ...
Its been more than 10 years since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and now scientists are seeing the long-term impact of the damage. While RESTORE money is being used to help ...
On July 5, BP announced that its one-day oil recovery effort accounted for 24,980 barrels (3,972 m 3) of oil, and the flaring off of 57.1 million cubic feet (1,620,000 m 3) of natural gas. The total oil collection to date for the spill was estimated at 657,300 barrels (104,500 m 3). [23]
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]