Deepwater horizon oil spill

On April 20, an explosion at a British Petroleum (BP) exploratory drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and initiated what could be the worst industrial disaster in U.S. history.

Scientists believe it will be decades before the Gulf of Mexico sea floor, damaged across almost 60-square-miles, recovers from the 2010 BP oil spill, according to a recently published study.

The public's focus eventually turned away from the 2010 disaster. Scientists, however, are still learning the scale of the devastation.

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The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in April 2010 was both a human and an environmental catastrophe. Getting the spill under control was an enormous challenge. The main problem was the depth of the well, nearly 1,500 meters below the sea surface. It was a configuration that had never been tried before, and the pollution it unleashed after methane gas shot to the surface and ignited in a fiery explosion is also unequalled. Much research has been done since the spill on the effects on…

A Look at the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Explosion, Containment and Cleanup Efforts in the Gulf Region

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in United States history. The disaster was caused by an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, taking 11 lives and releasing nearly 210 million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Twelve years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, scientists are still working to understand where all this oil ended up, a concept known as environmental fate.

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Spill-response crews gathering and burning oil in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the leaking Macondo well. Photo taken June 22, 2010. Photo courtesy Dr. Oscar Garcia / Florida State University.

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill. The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

The spill was a wake-up call to the world about the risks to coastal economies and habitats.

Researchers have found carbon from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the feathers and digestive tracts of seaside sparrows, proving for the first time that oil

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Deepwater Horizon. April 20 to July 15, 2010 - Gulf of Mexico, near the Mississippi River Delta, USA 🇺🇸 A wellhead blowout on the rig sparks a massive explosion that kills 11 workers and sets the platform ablaze for 36 hrs before it finally sinks into the ocean on April 22. For 87 days, 4.9 million barrels of 'light sweet crude oil' spills into the gulf in an area up to 68,000 sq miles. The wellhead was capped on July 15, and permanently sealed September 19, 2010. Enviromental damage was…

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