Gulf of Mexico

On April 20, 2010 the British Petroleum (BP) licensed Deep Water Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. The initial blast killed 11 people, injuring 17 others. Over a period of the next 87 days, over 200 million gallons of oil was pumped into to Gulf of Mexico, polluting over 16,000 miles of shoreline, including the coast of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. The Deep Water Horizon oil spill is the largest human-caused disaster in U.S. history roughly 20 times larger than the

Petroleum’s (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil rig, located 45 miles off the coast of Venice, Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and caught fire, resulting in the deaths of eleven workers and others injured. The rig sank on the morning of April 22nd, and on April 23rd crews discovered oil leaking from the well’s rise and drill pipe. An estimated 206 million gallons of oil flooded into the Gulf of Mexico. More than 8,000 birds, sea turtles, and marine mammals were found injured or dead in the result of

called “Gulf of Mexico oil spill of 2010”. It is the largest marine oil spill in the history, it caused approximately 41 miles (66 kilometers) leakage off the coast of Louisiana, and its subsequent sinking on April 22. The Deepwater Horizon rig is owned and operated by offshore-oil-drilling company Transocean and leased by oil company BP. After leakage accident, BP company has agreed to pay $175 m to settle claims that it deceived shareholders by underplaying the severity of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico

The Deep Horizon oil spill caused by British Petroleum (BP) changed the entire economy of the Gulf of Mexico. Approximately 5 million barrels of oils was released from the spill caused by an explosion in the oil platform. The explosion was caused by negligence by BP. In the New York Times article, BP Shortcuts Led to Gulf Oil Spill, Report Says, it states the central problem was with the cement at the base of the well escalating into human and mechanical errors which led to gas to shooting up to

A detonation on the Deepwater Horizon mobile offshore wells-exploratory platforms unit near the Gulf of Mexico, operated by British Petroleum, on April 20, 2010, or known as BP oil spill. The BP oil catastrophe ignited due to high-pressure methane gas by drilling a deep exploratory at Macondo well, reported by Up Stream Online news. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill still outlasts as a great size accidental marine oil spill in the records of the petroleum industry. The date, report details, and location

22nd, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon sank. The rig left the well gushing at the seabed and caused the largest oil spill in the U.S. waters. The explosion caused the Deepwater rig to burn and sink. This resulted in a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the world, and the largest environmental disaster in the U.S. history. The Deepwater Horizon explosion made a negative impact in people’s personal lives, people’s work lives and wildlife.

“After the Spill is gone: The Gulf of Mexico, Environmental Crime, and the Criminal Law [dagger]” covers the deep water oil rig spill in the Gulf of Mexico that took place on April 20, 2010. The most devastating spill to our environment, causing the death of eleven people and three months of oil gushing into our waters harming our environment. There was an estimated 4.9 million barrels (approximately 200 million gallons) of oil spilled. This law review relates to the reading in the Effective

Do you know what the definition of Atchafalaya is? It’s a river two hundred and twenty five miles (three hundred and sixty-two kilometers) S Louisiana flowing S into Atchafalaya Bay (inlet of the Gulf of Mexico). IT’s actually pretty interesting. The Atchafalaya is a distributary of the Mississippi. Around the late ninetieth century and early twentieth century a flood happened in Mississippi causing the Atchafalaya River to increase its size of the channel and the carrying capacity. That is until

occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. The BP oil spill, or the Gulf of Mexico spill, more than 200 million gallons of crude oil were pumped into the Gulf of Mexico for a total of 87 days, making it the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. The BP pipes were leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 40 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The disaster killed 11 workers and injured 17. By the time the well was capped on July 15, 2010 an estimated 3.19 million barrels of oil had leaked into the gulf. As much as

in U.S. history, releasing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico” (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, n.d., para.1). This tragedy didn’t only have a devastating impact on the environment; eleven personnel assigned to the Deepwater Horizon Macondo rig lost their lives, either in the initial oil well explosion or the subsequent fires that resulted. The environmental impact of this disaster may affect the gulf states ecosystems/wildlife (Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama