4 Aug 2010 BP 'plugs' Gulf of Mexico oil spill (Update). by Matt Davis. The procedure involved pumping heavy drilling fluid into the well to push leaking crude 15 Nov 2012 This aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., on Apr. 21, 2010 shows the Deepwater Horizon oil rig 29 Nov 2013 Directly following the spill, BP set up The Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) which was later deemed not independent and later replaced by a 20 Apr 2010 The explosion caused oil pipes to rupture and spill thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The BP oil spill has since turned into one 20 Jun 2010 Issues Raised by BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. As the oil spill coming from BP's Deepwater Horizon exploratory drilling rig accidents
NEW ORLEANS — An oil spill that has been quietly leaking millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history. The disaster on April 20, 2010 killed 11 workers as the flaming rig sank into the Gulf of Mexico. It took nearly three months to stem the flow of oil from the ruptured undersea well. On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon/BP MC252 drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and caused the rig to sink. As a result, oil began leaking into the Gulf creating one of the largest spills in American history. During the next 87 days an estimated 4 million barrels (168 million gallons)
20 Apr 2016 ARCHIVAL VIDEO: Deepwater Horizon oil rig in Gulf of Mexico ignited in 2010 explosionApril 21, 2010: The oil rig, under contract with BP, 4 Apr 2016 over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, resolving years of litigation over what caused one of the biggest ever environmental disasters. 20 Apr 2015 5 years after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, certain consequences such as environmental damage, the fine for BP and future prevention measures 2 Jul 2015 British Petroleum (BP) has reached a settlement agreement in the case of the catastrophic 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Bloomberg In April 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people and unleashing the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Over the 4 Aug 2010 BP 'plugs' Gulf of Mexico oil spill (Update). by Matt Davis. The procedure involved pumping heavy drilling fluid into the well to push leaking crude 15 Nov 2012 This aerial photo taken in the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice, La., on Apr. 21, 2010 shows the Deepwater Horizon oil rig
On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon/BP MC252 drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and caused the rig to sink. As a result, oil began leaking into the Gulf creating one of the largest spills in American history. During the next 87 days an estimated 4 million barrels (168 million gallons) BP today activated an extensive oil spill response in the US Gulf of Mexico following the fire and subsequent sinking of the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig 130 miles south-east of New Orleans. BP is assisting Transocean in an assessment of the well and subsea blow out preventer The BP oil spill began when the Deepwater Horizon rig suffered an explosion on April 20, 2010. Of the 126 workers at the site that day, 11 were killed by the blast. In its first month, BP spilled 30 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, three times the Exxon Valdez oil spill . — In 2004, Hurricane Ivan plowed across the Gulf of Mexico and triggered an oil spill that is still leaking. It's the longest continuous oil spill in American history. Captain Rick Jiannuzzi took CBS News to where the Taylor oil rig once stood. The cause of the discharge was an explosion on the British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010. That explosion resulted in 11 deaths and the release of million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf over 87 days. The well was capped on July 15. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is also called the BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, or the Macondo blowout. It was an oil spill in the' Gulf of Mexico, the largest marine oil spill in history. The spill was caused by an oil gusher when the drilling machines exploded on April 20, 2010. The explosion killed 11 workers and injured 17 people. On April 20, an explosion at a British Petroleum (BP) exploratory drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and initiated what could be the worst industrial disaster in U.S. history.
In the BP Oil Spill, more than 200 million gallons of crude oil was pumped into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of 87 days, making it the biggest oil spill in U.S. 12 Feb 2020 The BP Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig burning in 2010. oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was far worse than 2 Mar 2019 The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, which took place from the British Petroleum's drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, is considered the most gruesome oil Restoring the Gulf Coast means making it better than it was before the spill. Different mechanisms are in place to ensure that happens, and that a significant Deepwater Energy Exploration and Production in the Gulf of Mexico Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling: an independent