U.S. Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill. Updated | Authorities are investigating the cause of the biggest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon blowout in 2010. It has poured BP Oil Spill: A 2010 oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The rig was owned by an offshore drilling contractor 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 On this day in 2010, an explosion and fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, kills 11 people and triggers the
13 Feb 2020 "invisible oil" during the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP's Deepwater Horizon rig spewed more than 200 million gallons
26 Apr 2013 Three years after the BP oil spill, expert David Kirby, reports that recent studies show that all life, from microscopic organisms to bottlenose 1 Jun 2010 Oil is no longer spewing into the Gulf of Mexico as BP choked off the flow from its ruptured undersea well. But this is only a temporary solution. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, oil leak, or oil disaster; the Gulf of Mexico oil spill; and the Macondo blowout) is an industrial disaster that began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum On April 20, 2010, the oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, operating in the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and sank resulting in the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon and the largest spill of oil in the history of marine oil drilling operations. 4 million barrels of oil flowed from the damaged Macondo well over an Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also called Gulf of Mexico oil spill, largest marine oil spill in history, caused by an April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig—located in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 41 miles (66 km) off the coast of Louisiana—and its subsequent sinking on April 22. The Gulf oil spill is recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Within days of the April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana. Gulf oil spill leaking 15 years later . Port Eads, La. — In 2004, Hurricane Ivan plowed across the Gulf of Mexico and triggered an oil spill that is still leaking. It's the longest continuous
BP Oil Spill: A 2010 oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The rig was owned by an offshore drilling contractor
Environmental Assistance. Migratory Birds - The BP Gulf oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is adversely affecting the marshes and coastlands used by shorebirds, 2 Jan 2016 Reuters The Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 was one of the world's worst environmental disasters, and it cost energy giant BP about $40 billion BP Gulf Oil Spill. In Re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico. Lieff Cabraser and co-counsel represent property owners, business BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. View Slideshow. The explosion April 20, 2010, aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig killed 11 people. The rig was about 50 miles On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, causing a sea-floor oil leak 1 mile beneath the ocean's surface. an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, caused by an explosion at the Macondo oil field being developed by British Petroleum (BP). By far the world's largest
30 Apr 2018 The Gulf oil spill is recognized as the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Gulf of Mexico May 5, 2010, as part of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill
BP agrees to $18.7 billion dollar Gulf oil spill settlement BP has agreed to pay $18.7 billion to the government after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that killed 11 operators and spewed The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been described as the worst environmental disaster in the United States, releasing about 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gal; 780,000 m 3) of crude oil making it the largest marine oil spill. Both the spill and the cleanup efforts had effects on the environment.. The oil spill was called the "worst environmental disaster the US
A court in New Orleans has upheld a previous decision ruling that BP needs to pay businesses for losses from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. BP has said
On April 20, an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana, rocked the Although the BP spill is now the largest ever, the previous holder of this