Sentences with phrase «sinking oil rigs»

This can be done by sinking oil rigs (through the Rigs - to - Reefs program), scuttling ships (such as the USS Oriskany), or by deploying rubble, tires, or construction debris.

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.

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Latest cases in point: BP, now fighting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, after one of its leased rigs exploded and sank.

There are also indications that BP and Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that burned and sank, could have used backup safety gear — a remote acoustic switch that would stanch the flow of oil from a leaking well 5,000 feet underwater — to prevent the massive spill now floating like a slow - motion train wreck toward the Mississippi and Louisiana coastline.

One year after the blowout at the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and subsequent burning and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, what has been learned?

On April 20, 2010, a blowout at the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico sank the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, operated by BP.

Remembered as the worst spill in U.S. history, the incident involved a BP - operated rig exploding and sinking near the Mississippi River Delta before it unloaded millions of gallons of crude oil into the water for over a month.

Artist Statement on DEEPHORIZON: «The supreme discipline of art — oil painting — is back with a vengeance — in the form of an oil painting on a 80.000 square miles ocean canvas with 32 million litres of oil — a unique piece of art... It has been 13 days since a BP oil and gas exploration well blew out, setting fire to the drilling rig, which sank, killing 11 people.

The Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded and sank has spilled millions of gallons of oil into the ecologically rich waters in the Gulf of Mexico and continues to gush 210,000 gallons of oil into the sea every day.

While rescuers searched for 11 missing offshore oil workers off the coast of Louisiana, the flaming, tilting rig they were on sank Thursday morning in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said.

Via EIA More on Fossil Fuels Green Hornet: F / A -18 Super Hornet Fighter Plane Flies on 50/50 Biofuel Blend Oil Leaks Caused by Sunk Exploration Rig Could Take Months to Stop, Even With Robots 30 + Miles of Smoke: Satellite Photos Show Smoke Plume From Burning Oil Rig [Update: It Sunk]

Stephen has also represented hundreds of individuals and businesses along the Gulf Coast impacted by the BP oil spill which resulted from the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

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.

When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sunk, it killed 11 workers and caused massive amounts of damage to nearby communities.