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BP (BP) and the U.S. Coast Guard say about 1,000 barrels of crude oil a day are leaking from the Transocean rig that burned and collapsed in the Gulf of Mexico last week. Coast Guard Rear Admiral ...
The oil leak was discovered on the afternoon of 22 April 2010 when a large oil slick began to spread at the former rig site. [41] The oil flowed for 87 days. BP originally estimated a flow rate of 1,000 to 5,000 barrels per day [bbl/d] (160 to 790 m 3 /d).
Between 2005 and 2007, Transocean was the owner of 30% of oil rigs active in the Gulf, and 33% of the incidents that triggered a Minerals Management Service (MMS) investigation took place on Transocean rigs. However, in the 3 years from 2008 to February 15, 2010, Transocean was the owner of 42% of rigs active in the Gulf but was responsible for ...
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 drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. [8]
Transocean's (RIG) Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico more than four months ago, killing 11 of its crew and injuring 17. But the investigation into what happened on ...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened well over a year ago now. For the most part, the oil has been cleaned up, businesses and resorts are back to relative normality, and people have moved past ...
Transocean Ltd. is an American ... began to leak in November 2011 while working on the "Frade" oil field. [44] Oil began leaking from the seabed at a depth of ...
The ghosts of oil spills past are still haunting Transocean (NYS: RIG) . In the fourth quarter, the company reported a $1 billion estimated loss contingency in relation to the Macondo Well ...