- Deepwater Horizon explosion - Wikipedia
On April 20, 2010, an explosion and fire occurred on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field about 40 miles (64 km) southeast off the Louisiana coast
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill | Summary, Effects, Cause, Clean . . .
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010, when an explosion damaged the Deepwater Horizon oil rig The rig’s sinking on April 22 began the discharge of oil into the Gulf of Mexico
- Deepwater Horizon – BP Gulf of America Oil Spill | US EPA
On April 20, 2010, the oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, operating in the Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of America, 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
- What do we know about the Deepwater Horizon disaster? - BBC
The Deepwater Horizon rig disaster caused the deaths of 11 crew and a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
- What was the Deepwater Horizon disaster? - Live Science
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 people Two days later, the rig capsized, and the damaged pipe below the rig began spewing oil into
- 15th anniversary of Deepwater Horizon and the Coast Guard’s . . .
In 2010, fifteen years ago, in the evening of April 20 th, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up Located 45 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana, the explosion resulted in the deaths of 11 workers and, within two days, the loss of the rig The resulting spill of over 200 million gallons of crude oil became the largest discharge of oil in U S waters A century earlier, petroleum products had
- Deepwater Horizon 10 Years Later: 10 Questions - NOAA Fisheries
The 2010 oil rig explosion killed 11 people, injured 17, and released 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of America It was the largest U S marine oil spill ever From the earliest moments of the spill, and through today, NOAA played a lead scientific role in responding to the spill
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