Sentences with phrase «rig explosions»

The Coast Guard plans to burn off much of the growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico caused by last week's oil rig explosion.

A worker on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is claiming he told BP about a faulty piece of safety equipment weeks before the rig explosion that has led to the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council announced yesterday that they are assembling an expert committee of academic and industry engineers to take a technical look into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill.

Whether that be the 11 workers killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, the more than 70 cleaners sickened by the aftermath, or the thousands of Nigerians killed directly or indirectly by our unquenchable thirst for petroleum.

As Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, she is studying the impact of the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion of 2010.

when this oil rig explosion happened for real but the movie was fascinating, very realistic (it's been inspired by the real happening) and with great movie effects.

Tim Burton's latest fantastical oddity, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, earned a hefty $ 28.5 m at the US box office in its first weekend on release, but Peter Berg's acclaimed disaster movie Deepwater Horizon, about the 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, failed to attract an audience.

«Deepwater Horizon» ends with a list of 11 people who died aboard the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, but it spends nearly two hours beforehand focused on one survivor.

In the wake of Benchley's novel, we quickly got such memorable chum as Megalodon (oil rig explosion unleashes giant shark), Carcharodan (prehistoric shark freed when iceberg melts), Extinct (killer shark preys on boys in Mississippi River) and Meg (really big pregnant shark bubbles up from Marianas Trench and eats dumb tourists.)

Whether it was cutting down logs to collapse on them, shooting explosives barrels, rigging explosions, crafting and using a Molotov, or even the traditional mowing down enemies by spraying them with a machine gun, all of it combined together has never looked so seamless, fun, and kickass.

Initial findings have been released by the panel convened by the National Academy of Engineering to assess decisions, or the lack of them, that led to the deadly oil rig explosion and gulf gusher.

The numerous technical and operational breakdowns that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico suggest the lack of a suitable approach for managing the inherent risks, uncertainties, and dangers associated with deepwater drilling operations and a failure to learn from previous «near misses.»

In the months since BP's catastrophic deep - water oil rig explosion, the international debate over energy, ever inclined to drift on the winds of current events, has been captured by the fiasco in the Gulf of Mexico and the environmental destruction caused by the errors -LSB-...]

America watched helplessly as millions of barrels of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, costing millions of dollars in environmental and health damages, and taking the lives of 11 workers who died in the oil rig explosion.

Since the Deepwater Horizon incident unleashed 4.9 million barrels of oil the Gulf of Mexico suffered another rig explosion and fire at the Vermilion Block 380 A Platform on 2 September 2010.

Twenty - six days after the BP oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent collapse, which has resulted in the leakage of millions of gallons of oil into the ocean and an untold amount of environmental damage, the latest

Also on Saturday, Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show that «maybe» the oil rig explosion was an act of eco-terrorism.

Whether your offshore injuries are the result of an oil rig explosion or other maritime accident, our Houston - based maritime injury attorneys are equipped with the right knowledge, background and experience to seek the compensation you deserve.

To learn about your legal rights in event of an oil rig explosion and to find out if you are owed financial compensation, talk to Houston injury attorney Neal Davis.

A pioneer of group actions for consumers in disasters of all kinds — financial, transport and product liability — he was instrumental in many landmark cases, e.g. Equitable Life, the Herald of Free Enterprise and Marchioness sinkings, the Kings Cross fire, Piper Alpha oil rig explosion, Lockerbie air disaster and Benzodiazepine product liability.

We'll start by noting that April 20 marks the third anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf.

The Deepwater Horizon rig explosion was about 600 miles away, and the waters here are pristine.

Not exact matches

Black Elk struggled financially after a November 2012 explosion on a Gulf of Mexico rig killed three workers and caused an oil spill.

This crackdown is partly due to a string of recent, highly - publicized disasters including the West Virginia coal mine explosion, an oil rig south of Louisiana that blew up, and a fire at a Washington State oil refinery.

BP PLC, the world's third - biggest publicly traded energy company — and fourth - biggest public company of any kind — flirted with annihilation this year after a deadly explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20 and the environmental disaster that spread across the Gulf of Mexico in the four months that followed.

Incidents involving death or safety, like Toyota's TM, -0.02 % faulty air bag recall or the 2010 explosion of a BP BP, -0.03 % oil rig and oil spill in U.S. waters, were more catastrophic in terms of consumer fallout.

What failures of the BP board of directors and its senior management led to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico?

There is also a sense among analysts that investors believe the worst may be over in terms of public opinion, though that remains to be seen given the outrage over the disaster caused by the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in April.

The blunt - spoken civil engineer has spent more than a half - century investigating high - profile engineering failures, from the space shuttle Columbia's horrific end to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil - drilling rig in the Gulf.

Ecologist Carl Safina captures the chaos and confusion that surrounded the 2010 explosion aboard the drill rig Deepwater Horizon.

The oil spill began on 20 April when an uncontrolled release of oil and gas from an underwater well caused an explosion that engulfed the Deepwater Horizon rig, killing 11 crewmen on board.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico sank the oil rig and created a leak that has spewed millions of gallons into the water.

This devastating explosion of an oil rig spewed 210 million gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico.

The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010, marked the beginning of the worst oil disaster in American history.

The explosion that sank BP's rig (video) in April was not lost on Brazilian regulators, who demanded that all companies operating in national waters review their emergency plans.

A U.S. Senate vote on Doney's nomination had been blocked for more than a year by Senator David Vitter (R - LA), who was unhappy with the Obama Administration's decision to impose a moratorium on offshore drilling in the wake of the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

However, it's not clear whether the respiratory problems reported by the workers in the study are likely to crop up in the 50,000 people who have helped clean up the spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

As mentioned, Berg is at work on Deepwater Horizon, about the explosion aboard the titular rig in April 2010.

The explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig that caused one of the worst oil spills in history is set for a Hollywood adaptation

Bringing all of his filmmaking guns to bear to depict the corporate negligence that caused an offshore rig's explosion, creating the the worst oil spill in American history.

The city is rigged to blow and you're in control of the action — bridges will fall, buildings will be reduced to clouds of dust and cars blown to pieces - devastating explosions will decimate your rivals and rip...

Crime - related violence includes property damage, explosions, car bombs, and remote control cars rigged with bombs.

The deep - sea exploitation of oil and gas has been going on for a few decades now, and we've seen what can happen when things go wrong a few years ago in the Gulf of Mexico with the massive oil spill that took place after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig...

On April 20th, an explosion ripped through BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, about forty miles off the coast of Louisiana.

a great irony I have observed while working at sea since 1983 in the global offshore oil & gas industry is the explosion of marine life that occurs in and around offshore drilling rigs.

It would prevent further deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico until officials determine what went wrong in the April 20 explosion and fire at an oil rig that led to oil gushing into the ocean 5,000 feet below the surface.

It was just over one month ago that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig was rocked by a massive explosion that lead to the US's biggest environmental disaster in decades.

Here's a handy infographic to bring you up to speed on the cleanup operations following the April 20th explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

I want to get back to the timing of the blowing up, the explosion out there in the Gulf of Mexico of this oil rig.