View Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Underwater PNG. I thought i lost this footage but today i found it :) those darn eels keep distracting me from doing my business here. Bp, which leased the deepwater horizon rig that exploded 50 miles from the louisiana coast last tuesday, has said attempts to prevent the the underwater oil well is gushing 42,000 gallons a day from the site of the wrecked drilling platform and the spill has grown to more than 1,800 square miles.
Us airforce planes sprayed corexit onto the crude oil slick, while bp, for the first time ever, injected the chemical 1,500 meters underwater at the. Is the oil lurking underwater? 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.
Deepwater horizon oil rig still on fire after huge explosion.
The deepwater horizon is a semisubmersible drilling rig, or mobile drilling unit (modu). Before it was capped three months later, approximately 134 million gallons of oil had. The three portions of the set recreated the drill floor area, the main deck of the. Bp has a 65% share, anadarko petroleum corporation has see national commission on the bp deepwater horizon oil spill and offshore drilling, deep water: