Deepwater Horizon
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Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while drilling in the Gul
Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible drilling rig
Deepwater Nautilus, a sister rig of Deepwater Horizon, being transported by MV Black Marlin.
Deepwater Horizon in flames after the explosion
Q4000 Discoverer Enterprise
Blowout (well drilling)
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A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed. Modern wells have blowout preventers intended to prevent
The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop, Texas (1901)
Ixtoc I oil well blowout
Government Accountability Office diagram showing subsea well containment operations