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The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The Department of the Interior is Live video feeds from remotely operated vehicles in the Gulf of Mexico via BP. along the Gulf Coast in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. 17 Feb 2020 comments. A controlled fire following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass 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 Download a PDF of "Approaches for Ecosystem Services Valuation for the Gulf of Mexico After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill" by the National Research In 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and created the largest offshore oil disaster in history, causing millions of barrels to leak into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill 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 industry and estimated to be 8% to 31% larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill, also in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. federal government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 million barrels. After several failed efforts to contain the flow, the well

2 Sep 2014 Halliburton has traded blame with British Petroleum (BP) over the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which unleashed nearly 5 19 Mar 2017 Seven years ago, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Mexico. It was run by BP, the British multinational oil and 14 Apr 2015 Seaside sparrows had declined in Louisiana's contaminated salt marshes two years after the Gulf of Mexico's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 3 Feb 2017 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill constituted an ecosystem-level injury in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Much oil spread at 1100–1300 m depth,

20 Apr 2018 Born in the wake of 2010's Deepwater Horizon explosion — which killed 11 workers and dumped millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico

4 Apr 2018 Gulf of Mexico 4 years after the spill. The chemistry of the oil may have changed through biosynthesis or degradation, however the isotope 18 Sep 2019 In 2015, BP issued a statement claiming that the Gulf was healing itself the spill site is the same vibrant blue as the rest of the Gulf of Mexico, 28 Sep 2018 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010. Dozens of previously unseen court documents, minutes from government April 20, 2016 marks six years since the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 people and unleashing the largest environmental disaster the United

One year on, what is the environmental legacy of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and was it as bad as feared? The impact. Counting the cost The cost of

1 Dec 2015 While the Macondo well at the Gulf of Mexico area where the explosion and subsequent oil spill happened, was operated by BP, Anadarko was 19 Jul 2018 The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns and collapses into the Gulf of Mexico, due to an explosion — blowout — of the Macondo Well on April 20,

17 Apr 2015 On April 20, 2010, an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico unleashed an eruption of oil threatening ruin on a

17 Oct 2017 An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last week may be the largest in the U.S. since the 2010 blowout that sank the Deepwater Horizon rig. On April 20, 2010, the BP oil company's Macondo well blew out in mile-deep water in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the Deepwater Horizon drill rig to explode,