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Fourteen years ago, the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig suffered a blowout in water a mile deep. The Gulf of Mexico explosion took the lives of 11 people ...
A week before the explosion, a BP drilling engineer wrote, "This has been [a] nightmare well." By April 20 the Deepwater Horizon was six weeks behind schedule, according to MMS documents ...
Oil began seeping into the sea, and it continued to flow for almost three months. The Deepwater Horizon disaster is among the most lamented environmental catastrophes of the past century.
Representatives Kathy Castor (D-FL), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Darren Soto (D-FL), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) joined together in a ...
who depend on this rich body of water for food, culture, environmental enrichment and recreation. We need to learn these lessons from the Deepwater Horizon disaster — otherwise we’re doomed to repeat ...
The ruling is the first in several lawsuits from coastal parishes that want the oil and gas industry to compensate them for ...
On the third anniversary of the BP spill, the fashion label nakedheel rallies for a cause--without the slogans on T-shirts or tote bags. Did The Gulf Of Mexico Self-Clean After Deepwater Disaster?
An Oklahoma jury awarded $10 million each to the families of two men who died in a natural gas well explosion that killed five in 2018 - the deadliest drilling incident since the Deepwater Horizon ...
the production serves as a dramatization of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Given the ongoing relevance of this catastrophe, it’s no surprise that ...
In April 2010, there is no oil exploration operation in the Gulf of Mexico to compare with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig with ... create a massive blowout and explosion that threatens them all ...
During the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP sprayed roughly 1.84 million gallons (8.37 million litres) of the dispersant Corexit on the surface and deep into the water column – the largest volume ...
WASHINGTON — Working to dismantle his predecessor’s environmental legacy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at expanding drilling in the Arctic and opening other ...