Deepwater Horizon, oil drilling rig destroyed in an incident that resulted in a large oil spill
Somerhalder was involved in the cleanup after the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling disaster on April 22, 2010.
John Konrad is the author, along with journalist Tom Shroder, of Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster, which chronicles the initial construction, crewmembers' existence, and eventual disaster aboard the oil rig Deepwater Horizon.
The current Chevron well in the Basin is almost twice as deep as the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf, possibly posing increased risk for blowout preventer failure.
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It should be noted that if an oil spill akin to that of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico (2010) occurred in the Basin, the environmental repercussions could be even worse.
If elected to the parish council, Templet outlined his future goals as fighting crime, providing greater hurricane protection, and clearing coastal areas impacted by storms and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the subsequent oil spill, the U.S. Department of the Interior issued a six-month moratorium on exploratory drilling in deep water.
On April 22, 2010, three Norwegian crews involved with Ocean Intervention III from Oceaneering International, Skandi Neptune from DOF ASA, and Boa Sub C (from Boa International) begin using ROV to map the seabed and assess the damage to the wreckage from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
In August 2010, following the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, singer/songwriter and poet, Zachary Richard released an album featuring a hip-hop version of Rocky McKeon's song "Le grand gosier," with verses by Samian in French and Emrical in Haitian Creole.
Previously, on May 26 2010, Matthew Simmons was a guest on 'The Dylan Ratigan Show' on MSNBC, where he explained his reasons for believing that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill involved not only the leak being monitored by BP's video-camera-equipped ROVs remotely operated vehicles, but another, much bigger leak, several miles away.