Deepwater Horizon oil spill

WHERE DID THE OIL GO? A DEEPWATER HORIZON FACT SHEET

Some animals ate oil droplets or particles and then excreted oil- containing fecal pellets, which sank to the seafloor. During the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, ...

Environmental effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: A review

Although only a minor portion of the DWH oil reached the shoreline, the amount was enough to cause widespread contamination of coastal habitats and ecosystems, ...

Interior Fact Sheet - BP Deepwater Horizon Response

At approximately 10 pm on April 20th, a devastating explosion occurred on the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon Drill Rig, claiming the lives of eleven ...

MDL - 2179 Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon"

2179 Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" The Honorable Carl J. Barbier 500 Poydras Street, Room C-256 New Orleans, LA 70130

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill - Mobile Bay National Estuary Program

The largest oil spill in U. S. waters ensued, with a total estimated discharge of 4.9 million barrels (or 210 million gallons) over 87 days and through repeated ...

Deepwater Horizon Facts and Oil Spill Response

Deepwater Horizon Facts · Fact #1: More than 200 million gallons of crude oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. · Fact ...

U.S. and Five Gulf States Reach Historic Settlement with BP to ...

pleaded guilty to illegal conduct leading to and after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, and was sentenced to pay $4 billion in criminal ...

Deepwater Horizon - Macondo Well Blowout - dco.uscg.mil

The casualty resulted in the continuous flow of hydrocarbons into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days before the well was capped, causing the largest oil spill in ...

Deepwater Horizon - NOAA Office for Coastal Management

This video shares the story of the Deepwater Horizon spill and the affects it had on the gulf region.

BP Oil Disaster - Restore the Mississippi River Delta

On April 20, 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 men and dumping nearly 5 million barrels of oil—the equivalent of over 200 million ...

Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon, new spills seem imminent

Ten years after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, sending some 750 million liters of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over the course of nearly three months.

What We Learned from the BP Oil Disaster - NRDC

The biggest offshore oil spill in American history began on April 20, 2010, about 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana.

The BP 'Deepwater Horizon' oil rig explosion of 2010 - Reddit

Internal documents from BP estimated a hypothetical worst case of 14,450 tons or 100,000 barrels/day. Settling on the official estimates, the ...

Gulf commitment | Community | bp America

bp provisioned more than $69 billion relating to the spill, including response, cleanup, economic claims, government payments, settlements and restoration.

BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Why the Flow Rates are Increasing and ...

The pressure of the oil in the rock is 12,000 psi. When the well was drilled the pressure of the mud that filled the well was over 13,000 psi and no oil moved ...

Deepwater Horizon oil spill | The Guardian

February 2020 · A decade of change on Earth captured from space
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Review of flow rate estimates of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill | PNAS

Taking the upper bound on the Macondo well flow rate and the lower bound on the P3 data yields the maximum flux to the deep sea: 44,800 BPD. The most likely ...

British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Case

On April 20th 2010 the Deepwater Horizon petroleum exploration and production rig, which BP had leased from the Swiss firm Transocean, suffered ...

What Happened At The Deepwater Horizon? | Morris & Dewett

The Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010 caused 134 million gallons of oil to pour into the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people and injuring 17 more.

US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits

On 4 September 2014, the judge in the federal Multidistrict Litigation proceedings issued a ruling finding BP grossly negligent and guilty of wilful misconduct ...