Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Location: Macondo Prospect (Mississippi Canyon Block 252), in the North-central Gulf of Mexico, United States (south of Louisiana): Coordinates: 1]: Date: 20 April – 19 September 2010 (4 months, 4 weeks and 2 days): Cause; Cause: Wellhead blowout: Casualties: 11 people killed 17 people injured: Operator: Transocean under contract for BP [2]: Spill characteristics; Volume: 4.9 MMbbl ...
The Atlantis oil field is the third largest oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. The field was discovered in 1998 and is located at the Green Canyon blocks 699, 700, 742, 743, and 744 in United States federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico about 130 miles (210 km) from the coast of Louisiana. The oil field lies in water depths ranging from 4,400 to ...
The Department of the Interior exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact study after concluding that a massive oil spill was unlikely. [17] [18] In addition, following a loosening of regulations in 2008, BP was not required to file a detailed blowout plan. [19]
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
After reaching the largest corporate settlement in U.S. history, BP Plc faces a class action lawsuit in Mexico over its 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
BP (BP) will sell four deep-water oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico for $650 million. The company will sell the fields to Marubeni Oil and Gas, a unit of Japan's Marubeni Corp., The Wall ...
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On April 20, 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]
BP (ISE: BP.L) (NYS: BP) rallied 5 pence, or 1%, higher to 440 pence during lunchtime trading today after confirming the sale of a number of oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico to Plains ...