Within days of the april 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the deepwater horizon oil rig in the gulf of mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the damaged wellhead pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of louisiana. A dramatization of the disaster in april 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the deepwater horizon exploded, resulting. 10 years after the largest accidental oil spill in history, scientists look back on insights gained about how microbes and chemical processes degrade oil.
[11][12] the deepwater horizon oil spill is regarded as one of the largest environmental disasters in. The national commission on the bp deepwater horizon oil spill and offshore drilling, formed by obama in may 2010, faulted the obama administration’s response to the spill in a report issued in october. The biographical disaster movie deepwater horizon, released in 2016, depicts the events of the 2010 deepwater horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill.
After several failed efforts to contain the flow, the well was declared sealed on 19 september 2010. Deepwater horizon oil spill, largest marine oil spill in history, caused by an april 20, 2010, explosion on the deepwater horizon oil rig—located in the gulf of mexico, approximately 41 miles (66 km) off the coast of louisiana—and its subsequent sinking on april 22. On april 20, 2010, the oil drilling rig deepwater horizon, operating in the macondo prospect in the gulf of america, exploded and sank resulting in the death of 11 workers on the deepwater horizon and the largest spill of oil in the history of marine oil drilling operations. [10] reports in early 2012 indicated that the well site was still leaking.
The movie is based on deepwater horizon's final hours, an article published in the new york times. A ship sits on a band of oil from the 2010 deepwater horizon spill. The explosion, which killed 11 men, caused the rig to sink and started a catastrophic oil leak from the well. On april 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on the deepwater horizon drilling platform in the gulf of america (formerly gulf of mexico).
With mark wahlberg, kurt russell, douglas m.