Deepwater Horizon BP oil rig spill pollution crude oil contamination beaches wild life conservation Florida, Louisiana coast. 2010 disaster. Transocean. Thank you BP, for the sweet taste oil destruction.
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig. Oil rig built in 2001 in South Korea, owned by Transocean and leased to BP plc.
Gulf of Mexico and Alaska oil spills. History repeats firefighters. A blowout at the Ixtoc 1 offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 1979 took 9 months to Tony Hayward BP CEO, even with the help of Red Adair. Today, Deepwater Horizon lies in far deeper waters. 5000 feet. The Gulf.
Explosion and oil spill 11 dead Explosion and fire Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion. After burning fire approximately 36 hours, the Deepwater Horizon sank on April 22, 2010, in water approximately 5,000 ft (1,500 metres) deep, and has been located resting oil drilling seafloor approximately 1,300 ft (400 meters) (about a quarter of a mile) northwest of moosemother well cost of clean up Massive oil spill. Deepwater Horizon oil spill Transocean. The oil was not stopped before the Deepwater Horizon sank. Oil was still flowing. Estimates of the spill make this largest oil spill ever Lousiana coast the Gulf of Mexico, threatening fisheries, tourism, and the habitat sink hundreds of bird species. Deep Horizon disaster and the clean up. Apology from BP CEO Tony Hayward over the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. British Petroleum, aka BP. Crude oil in the Gulf. Petroleum, dispersants, microbes, cleaning up, booms, buoys are useless. Oil flows Transocean and under these booms.