Deepwater Horizon

It had already declined by 24% over the six weeks since the loss of the exploration rig Deepwater Horizon and the start of the spill.

Any reader who, after all this, still wants to read more about Deepwater Horizon should hope that Mr Allen has ambitions as a memoirist.

But he said it was too early to say what caused the April twentieth explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

Before Deepwater Horizon foundered there had not been a big leak from an offshore oil well for 40 years.

The company said it had recovered or flared 435, 600 barrels of oil since the Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20.

Evidence is also mounting, they say, that BP cut corners on Deepwater Horizon, suggesting that the accident was an aberration.

BP's Deepwater Horizon well had been leaking up to 60, 000 barrels per day 5, 000 feet below the surface.

Precisely such a dreaded blowout is presumed to have occurred on the Deepwater Horizon.

Deepwater Horizon oil was confirmed to be on six bottlenose dolphins, one had an unknown oil and two have not been tested.

When the Deepwater Horizon sank, this riser collapsed and folded in on itself, but did not sheer off from the blowout preventer.

The rig, the Deepwater Horizon, is located in an area known as the Mississippi Canyon.

At the time of the blowout the Deepwater Horizon's crew was sealing the well before moving off to another site.

It may be time to stop referring to the Deepwater Horizon rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico as an oil spill.

In that regard, the Gulf of Mexico well being drilled by the Deepwater Horizon was an outlier.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill left a sheen of petroleum on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

The Deepwater Horizon disaster should make us look to the sun, and start a revolution in how we meet our energy needs.

Perhaps most alarming of all, 40 days after the Deepwater Horizon blew up and began the underwater deluge, hurricane season is at hand.

Deepwater Horizon is a semisubmersible, effectively a floating platform that has small thrusters to hold it in place above a well.

We shall note with interest, the contrasts of corporate accountability between the oil spills of Dalian and the BP Deepwater Horizon.

It has been more than five weeks since the Deepwater Horizon rig sank, and the oil spill that resulted is very conspicuously continuing.

Transocean, as owner and operator of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, had responsibility for the safety of drilling operations.

Since the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, millions of gallons of crude have gushed into the Gulf.

When this image was taken, three months after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the leak had been plugged for eight days.

In the immediate aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, BP shouldered much of the blame from the public.

Families of the Deepwater Horizon's crew members gathered at a hotel in Kenner, La. , awaiting the arrival of the surviving crew.

For investors, Deepwater Horizon raises serious questions about the ability of even the best companies to cope with different cultures.

A ship maneuvers itself across the Gulf of Mexico as oil continues to leak from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead.

The Deepwater Horizon blowout has become one of the most scrutinized maritime disasters ever.

The question is whether the Deepwater Horizon accident might change the balance.

Mr Hayward has received criticism over his handling of the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Smoke rises from surface oil being burned by cleanup crews near the Deepwater Horizon blowout.

Oil coats the hands of an AP reporter at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

In years to come it will be possible to place Deepwater Horizon in various narratives, perhaps as a turning point.

In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, many Gulf Coast residents worried about the potential impact of hurricane activity.

Three months on, the consequences of the Deepwater Horizon disaster are becoming clearer.

The Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation issued ane-mailed statement today with the witness lists.

The bird was recovered in the area where a giant oil slick spread after the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig.

Chemical analysis of oil found on the dying coral showed that it came from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

A heavily-oiled bird is rescued from the waters of Barataria Bay, which are laden with oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Oil is continuing to leak into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April.

Thick black waves of oil and brown whitecaps churn at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response, the official site of the Deepwater Horizon unified command.

A dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana Monday, June, 7, 2010.

Workers are missing after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which operated in the Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: AP.

Brown Pelicans fly past booms stained by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill at Cat Island, Louisiana.

But his performance during the Deepwater Horizon crisis has been widely perceived as lackluster.

Blame politics: The devastation from the Deepwater Horizon well makes a blanket US energy policy even less likely.

It was first reported at 10 pm local time on the deepwater semisubmersible drilling platform Deepwater Horizon.

An image released to National Geographic of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

On Thursday (July 8) BP said its operation to drill a new relief well to stop the Deepwater Horizon leak was ahead of schedule.

The area has been impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay, just inside the the coast of Lousiana, US.

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon has affected wildlife throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began with an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 people.

Then again, the Deepwater Horizon spill showed that America's own capacity to clean up after itself is limited.

The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig last week in the Gulf of Mexico was without question a human tragedy.

Mr. Obama says this was necessary because of ongoing uncertainty about safety in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

That's when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11 workers.

oil cleanup workers skim for oil from the deepwater horizon oil spill in perdido pass in orange beach, ala.

In practice, he reckons, cleaning up the Deepwater Horizon spill of almost 5m barrels would have needed around 7, 000 tonnes of wool.

Oil continues to gush into the Gulf, six weeks after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that BP leased exploded, killing 11 people.

Both regulators and oil firms will learn useful lessons from the Deepwater Horizon fiasco, and safety will surely improve as a result.

At the coastguard rate the Deepwater Horizon leak would take years to match Ixtoc-1; at Mr MacDonald's rate, months.

The Deepwater Horizon was leased for drilling by the BP oil company.

A shrimp boat takes part in a cleaning operation for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.

The turtle was rescued from oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico.

The oil slick resulted from an accident at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oil from the damaged Deepwater Horizon oil well lingered off the Mississippi Delta on July 4, 2010.

Energy analysts believe that with the Deepwater Horizon disaster harming its brand in America, BP could be keen to sell U. S. assets.

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill pools against the Louisiana coast along Barataria Bay Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

This is especially true between the Mississippi Delta and the Deepwater Horizon location.

In the Gulf of Mexico, BP hadn't suffered a safety disaster until the Deepwater Horizon.

a number of inquiries are looking back at the loss of the Deepwater Horizon rig and the subsequent spilling of 5m barrels of oil.

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill enters Mud Lake from Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish inside the Louisiana coast on July 31, 2010.

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill coats marsh grass at the Louisiana coast along Barataria Bay Tuesday, June 8, 2010.

Without such technology, after all, BP couldn't have drilled the Deepwater Horizon well in the first place.

The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in April killed 11 people.

Anadarko owns a 25 percent stake in BP's Deepwater Horizon, and BP wants Anadarko to pay for 25 percent of costs.

An aerial view of the oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead.

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill makes its way to shore on Chandeleur Islands in Louisiana.

On April 20th an explosion crippled the Deepwater Horizon, an offshore oil rig.

A suction hose is used to remove oil washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon spill, Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in Belle Terre, Louisiana.

Days after the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf, the government sent skimmers hunting for visible slicks.

Clumps of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill splash in the surf on a beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama on June 4, 2010.

In June 2010, Joye returned from an emergency research expedition in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Carl Safina headed down to the Gulf Coast just days after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, 2010.

A hard hat from an oil worker lies in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana June 8, 2010.

A sea turtle is mired in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Grand Terre Island, Louisiana June 8, 2010.

And that doesn't include the 11 workers who died on the Deepwater Horizon.

The Deepwater Horizon rig exploded in the Mexican Gulf on 20 April, killing 11 workers and creating a huge leak.

U. S. Coast Guard and other agencies respond to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th, 2010.

U. S. Coast Guard and other agencies respond to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20th, 2010.

Britain's BP, which is raising cash to pay the bill for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. wants to sell two huge ones in America.

A NASA satellite saw smoke from the burning Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010.

'Mayday, Mayday. This is Deepwater Horizon. We have an uncontrollable fire. '

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 crew members.

On April 20 at 10: 43 a. m. , a young BP PLC engineer sent a 173-word email to colleagues aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

There will be plenty of lessons to learn from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Last year on April twentieth the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded in flames in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven workers were killed.

In truth, Obama began playing the wrong cards even before the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

In comparison, over three months last year the Deepwater Horizon accident spilled 4. 1 million barrels into the Gulf of Mexico.

Last year they drilled the world's deepest commercial exploration well, in the Gulf of Mexico, using the Deepwater Horizon rig.

As we learned after the Deepwater Horizon spill, ocean-dwelling microbes are quite capable of both consuming and producing hydrocarbons

New and valuable lessons are being learnt from the massive operation to stop the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Deepwater Horizon oil rig on fire The Deepwater Horizon rig explosion last April caused the US's worst environmental disaster

A dead young egret covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead is turned over to wildlife rescue team near Bird Island in Bataria Bay

New studies show impact of BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster on dolphins and other marine wildlife may be far worse than feared

The Deepwater Horizon disaster will affect everyone from pelicans to politicians

A laughing gull soiled with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill flies over an island in Barataria Bay

Deepwater Horizon: Drilling deep, drilling dumb

Watching and waiting after the Deepwater Horizon spill

Deepwater Horizon from the air

Oysters after the Deepwater Horizon