
Deepwater Horizon oil rig: fire - Encyclopedia Britannica
2025年3月14日 · Deepwater Horizon 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, …
Deepwater Horizon - Wikipedia
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while …
Deepwater Horizon – BP Gulf of America Oil Spill | US EPA
2025年2月6日 · 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 …
Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia
Built by South Korean company Hyundai Heavy Industries [32] and owned by Transocean, the rig operated under the Marshallese flag of convenience, and was chartered to BP from March …
Special Report: Why the BP Oil Rig Blowout Happened - Popular Mechanics
2010年9月2日 · Engineers identify seven fatal flaws that led to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and draw lessons on how to prevent future catastrophes.
The BP Oil Disaster, 10 Years Later - NPR
2020年4月20日 · It's been 10 years since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. Eleven rig workers were killed, and the …
What do we know about the Deepwater Horizon disaster? - BBC
2010年9月8日 · Here is a summary of what we know so far about the BP oil spill, and the primary questions that are still being investigated. The Deepwater Horizon rig was drilling an oil well in …
Deepwater Horizon | Oil Spills | Damage Assessment, …
The explosion, which killed 11 men, caused the rig to sink and started a catastrophic oil leak from the well. Before it was capped three months later, approximately 134 million gallons of oil had …
A deep dive into BP’s Deepwater Horizon Spill: a case study
2022年8月17日 · Considered as the biggest marine disaster in history, on April 20 th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 crew members working …
Massive oil spill begins in Gulf of Mexico | April 20, 2010 - HISTORY
2012年12月10日 · April 20, 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 …