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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 ...
Deepwater Horizon was a floating semi-submersible drilling unit —a fifth-generation, ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, column-stabilized drilling rig owned by Transocean and built in South Korea. The platform was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and could operate in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep, to a maximum ...
Deepwater Horizon. (film) Deepwater Horizon is a 2016 American biographical disaster film based on the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Peter Berg directed it from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Matthew Sand. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O'Brien, and ...
June 1 – Oil began washing up on the beaches of Gulf Islands National Seashore. [ 88] June 4 – Tar balls arrive on beaches in Pensacola, Florida. [ 89] June 5 – Obama makes third trip to Louisiana since the disaster began, visits Grand Isle, Louisiana for the second time in two weeks.
Amoco Cadiz and coast of Brittany. The Amoco Cadiz oil spill took place on 16 March 1978, when the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz, owned by the American petroleum company Amoco, ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 2 km (1.2 mi) [ 1][ 2] from the coast of Brittany, France. The vessel ultimately split in three and sank. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that made worldwide headlines in the spring of 1989 and occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The spill occurred when Exxon Valdez , an oil supertanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company , bound for Long Beach , California, struck Prince William Sound 's Bligh ...
Jet-powered truck; Olympian Donovan Bailey. January 3, 1999. 41. "Our Greatest Hits II". A collection of Tyler and Elisha's best and most exciting adventures from Season 2 of Popular Mechanics for Kids. January 10, 1999. 42. "Creepy Crawlers". Insects; leech farm; honeybees; exterminator.
2020 Colonial Pipeline oil spill Location Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States Coordinates 35°24′52″N 80°48′23″W / 35.41444°N 80.80639°W / 35.41444; -80.80639 Date July 27, 2020 Cause Cause Leak caused by a crack in a repair sleeve Operator Colonial Pipeline Company Spill characteristics Volume 2,000,000 U.S. gallons (7,600,000 L) A major oil spill from the ...