Natural disasters Careless mistakes or negligence Illegal dumpers In 2010, theDeepwater Horizonoil rig spilled approximately 210 million gallons of oil into the gulf–making it the second-largest oil spill in history. What led to this serious oil spill? Numerous flaws led to the oil rig blowout...
January 11, 2011 -The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling releases their full report stating that the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig launched the worst oil spill in US history, 168 million gallons (or about 4 million barrels). September 14,...
July 6, North Sea off Scotland:166 workers killed in explosion and fire on Occidental Petroleum'sPiper Alpharig in North Sea; 64 survivors. It is the world's worst offshore oil disaster. Nov. 10, Saint John's, Newfoundland:Odysseyspilled 43 million gallons of oil. ...
January 11, 2011 -The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling releases their full report stating that the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig launched the worst oil spill in US history, 168 million gallons (or about 4 million barrels). ...
Disasters Contact Visualizing the BP Oil SpillAn explosion on the BP operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig killed eleven crew members on April 20, 2010, sparking the greatest environmental disaster in United States history. In combination with the Texas City Refinery Explosion and the Prudohoe Bay ...
Deepwater Horizon oil rig: fireFireboat response crews attempting to extinguish the blaze aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, April 21, 2010.(more) The immediate environmental effects of oil spills have been readily identified, but their long-term impact on the ecologica...
Planet Earth Energy Fossil Fuels News ByRemy Melina publishedApril 28, 2010 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig, Deepwater Horizon on April 21, ...
…The PB Oil drilling Disaster has overlaid another travesty over a region devastated by Hurricanes Rita and Katrina when communities were still far from recovering from the impact of those disasters of 2005. Therefore the largest disaster in US history was visited upon communities who already suffe...
history. Before the Deepwater Horizon accident, oil spill disasters were more or less “tolerated” because the pollution was not always very visible and after all, over a period of months rather than years, the oil, or at least most of it, appeared to be decomposed by bacteria. As a ...
Offshore platform and rig disasters make many people think of massive explosions and oil slicks. In reality, the most lethal element in offshore life often comes from harsh weather conditions and the daily threat of an unforgiving ocean. In many of the worst disasters, these elements claimed ...