Oil giant BP has agreed to pay $20bn to settle claims with the US stemming from the company's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. An explosion on BP's deep-water drill, off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 ...

Eleven people were killed. Two days later, the rig collapsed. Oil began seeping into the sea, and it continued to flow for almost three months. The Deepwater Horizon disaster is among the most ...

The Deepwater Horizon was scheduled for a series of extensive ... Using the world’s most authoritative database of oil rig accidents, a Norwegian company, Det Norske Veritas, focused on some ...

Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig suffered a blowout in water a mile deep. The Gulf of Mexico explosion took the lives of 11 people, released 134 million gallons of oil into the Gulf over 87 ...

If oil rig operators could see real-time data about ... In an alternative reality in which the Deepwater Horizon never exploded, what would we have done with all the oil we lost?

Two days later, the rig collapsed ... controversial way to try to dissipate the impacts of oil spills: dispersants. During the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP sprayed roughly 1.84 million gallons ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the deepest and largest offshore spill in the United State history and its impacts on marine ecosystems are largely unknown. Here ...

No known technology could extract it, and any attempt risked the oil squirting out of the drill hole with potentially massive pollution. BP told Transocean, owners of the Deepwater Horizon rig ...

2. April 20, 2010 – An explosion occurs on board the BP-contracted Transocean Ltd. Deepwater Horizon oil rig, releasing approximately 168 million gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

With one day left to… U.S., five states announce settlement with BP over gulf oil spill The Justice ... of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

there is no oil exploration operation in the Gulf of Mexico to compare with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig with its size or sheer depth of its drilling. However, the project for the BP oil company ...

RIG holds a strong position in offshore drilling with high demand and innovative technology, but its high debt and financial losses could affect growth prospects.