A Louisiana island that provides critical ... from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and subsequent oil spill. Former BP executive David Rainey was acquitted on charges of lying to ...

However, offshore oceanic impacts are less well understood. The BP oil spill is introducing oil and methane gas into the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico. Previous studies on deepwater drilling ...

located around 65 km off the coast of Louisiana. The explosion triggered a massive spill of crude oil, which flowed into the Gulf for 87 days before it was capped. An estimated 4.9 million barrels ...

However, it is thought that these measures recovered or dispersed only around a third of the spilled oil. The BP spill sparked a huge amount of research into oil spills and their impacts.

An estimated 5% of the BP oil spill was burnt off the surface. Burning requires concentrating the oil on the sea surface to at least 2-3mm – relatively thick for an oil spill. It also requires ...

With one day left to… U.S., five states announce settlement with BP over gulf oil spill The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims ...