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23September 2021

The Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill

By |September 23rd, 2021|Categories: Friday Famous Failures|6 Comments

In 2008, the energy company BP received a permit to drill a subsurface oil well in the Gulf of Mexico called the Macondo well. For this project, BP chartered the 10-year-old rig Deepwater Horizon from its owner, Transocean. Halliburton was responsible for cementing work ...