{"id":547308,"date":"2010-04-29T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/about-the-bp-deepwater-gulf-oil-spill-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-29T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T19:48:00","slug":"everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-worst-oil-spill-in-us-history-bp-rig-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547308","title":{"rendered":"Everything You Need To Know About The Worst Oil Spill In US History (BP, RIG, CAM)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The oil spill surged back in the news today after reports that BP’s deepwater rig is spewing out far more oil than expected.<\/p>\n

Jumping from 1,000 barrels-per-day to 5,000 barrels-per-day has a big multiplier effect on the political and environmental consequences of the wreck.<\/p>\n

If the leak continues for 53 days, the spill volume will exceed Exxon Valdez.<\/p>\n

2001: Transocean builds the Deepwater Horizon, hailed as a “marvel of modern technology.” It is leased by BP through 2013<\/h2>\n
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September 2009: Deepwater drills the deepest oil well in history <\/h2>\n
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April 20, 2010: An underwater explosion… the rig catches fire… <\/h2>\n
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April 20: Nearly 100 workers escape by life boat… another 17 are rescued by helicopter<\/h2>\n
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April 20: 11 workers are presumed dead<\/h2>\n
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The explosion is caused when a blowout preventer fails to close as pressure increased<\/h2>\n
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April 21: BP estimates oil leakage at 1,000 barrels per day<\/h2>\n
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Doug Suttles, BP\u2019s chief operating officer for exploration and production<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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April 28: Louisiana shrimp farmers file suit against BP<\/h2>\n
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April 29: After discovering a third leak, government experts increase their estimate to 5,000 barrels per day. BP accepts the new estimate<\/h2>\n
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Janet Napolitano<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Three stocks take a big hit: BP, Transocean (RIG), and blowout-prevention-part-marker Cameron (CAM)<\/h2>\n
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Wind and ocean currents push the oil spill towards the continental US.<\/h2>\n
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Image: Unified Command Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declares a state of national emergency. Barack Obama confirms.<\/h2>\n
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At 5,000 bbl per day, it will take only 53 days for the spill to exceed Exxon-Valdez.<\/h2>\n
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Thousands of fish and birds are at risk (note the flock of gulls). Environmentalists are furious<\/h2>\n
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BP is spending $6 million-a-day on cleanup, and they’re just getting started<\/h2>\n
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The most environmental option could be setting the oil on fire!<\/h2>\n
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BP has been unable to close the leak using rovs. The next option involves putting a dome over the well head — which could take weeks — or introducing a second rig to siphon flow — which could take months<\/h2>\n
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A remote-operated underwater vehicle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Wikipedia has the latest ><\/a><\/p>\n

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The oil is 20 miles from Louisiana and will make landfall late Friday (even if containment efforts go well)<\/h2>\n
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Image: NOAA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How does this effect the future of off-shore drilling?<\/h2>\n
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Here’s why we need deep-ocean drilling…<\/h2>\n
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15 Drill Crazy Countries That Are Rapidly Running Out Of Oil >><\/a><\/h2>\n

Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n

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The oil spill surged back in the news today after reports that BP’s deepwater rig is spewing out far more oil than expected. Jumping from 1,000 barrels-per-day to 5,000 barrels-per-day has a big multiplier effect on the political and environmental consequences of the wreck. If the leak continues for 53 days, the spill volume will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}