– Largest US oil spill disaster
– April 20, 2010 10 PM CDT explosion occurred on Deepwater Horizon oil rig
– Rig was 41 mi off Louisiana coast
– Oil well located 5,000 feet below the ocean surface
– Rig owned by Transocean, built by Hyundai, leased by BP, Anadarko and Mitsui
– Macondo prospect estimated to contain 50 million barrels of oil
– Blowout preventer made by Cameron and installed by Halliburton
– Halliburton said that it had finished cementing 20 hours before the fire
Coverage:
Deepwater Horizon Unified Command
White house
NOAA
CNN
MSNBC
gCaptain
ADN
Upstream
NOLA
Companies:
BP
Transocean
Halliburton
Hyundai Heavy Industries
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
Cameron
Articles:
BP Gulf Oil Spill Cheat Sheet: A Timeline of Unfortunate Events
Oil Blowout: What Did BP and Halliburton Know, and What/When Did They Tell Us?
Wikipedia:
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
List of oil spills
Maps:
CNN Spill Tracker
Oil Spill Tracker
Where Oil Has Made Landfall
Nola
Video:
Spill Cam
60 Minutes
Photos:
Boston Globe
Nachofoto
Yahoo photos