About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 90. Chapters: Oil platform disasters, Oil spills, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, List of oil spills, Deepwater Horizon explosion, Montara oil spill, Arctic Refuge drilling controversy, New Carissa, Blowout, Piper Alpha, 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill, Environmental impact of the oil shale industry, Ixtoc I oil spill, West Cork oil spill, Prestige oil spill, 2007 Korea oil spill, Amoco Cadiz, 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Jiyeh Power Station oil spill, MV Braer, Lago Agrio oil field, Torrey Canyon, Sea Empress Disaster, MV Erika, MT Haven, Guimaras oil spill, Xingang Port oil spill, Environmental impact of petroleum, Gulf War oil spill, Lake Peigneur, MT Independen a, Odyssey, MV Sea Empress, Transocean Marianas, Maritime Jewel, Petrobras 36, Kab 101, Yellow River oil spill, 2010 Puebla oil pipeline explosion, Oil Pollution Act of 1990, Mariner Energy, NEPCO 140 oil spill, Tarball, MT Bunga Kelana 3, Katina P, Waste oil, Julie N., MV Shelly, Jessica, 2010 Mumbai oil spill, Ohmsett, The O'Brien's Group, MV Iron Baron, MV Waily, VLCC Metula, Morris J. Berman oil spill, Plataforma Nunca Mais, Jebel al-Zayt oil spill, Jakob Maersk, MV Tasman Spirit, Full City oil spill, Nowruz, The Cullen Reports, Aegean Sea oil spill, Project Deep Spill, Mingbulak oil spill, 2009 Luderitz oil spill. Excerpt: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the BP oil disaster, or the Macondo blowout) is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed for three months in 2010. It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. The spill stemmed from a sea-floor oil gusher that resulted from the April 20, 2010, explosion of Deepwater Horizon, which drilled on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. The explosion killed 11 men working on the platform and injured 1...