Oil spills are major ecological disasters. Not only do they take huge amounts of time and much manual labor to clean up, but the effects of the spill are also long standing and not fully understood. Manufacturers of containment equipment have played an important role...
The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that occurred in the Macondo Prospect, Gulf of Mexico, is reportedly the worst accidental oil spill disaster in the history of the petroleum industry so far. The oil rig that was being run by British Petroleum and owned by the...
At almost ten in the night (American time) on the 20th of April 2010, the nightmare that was to become the worst oil spill disaster in the history of the petroleum industry worldwide had just begun. The Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit,...
A couple of months ago, the world celebrated the fourth anniversary of the latest environmental disaster caused by an accidental oil spill. The Macondo Blowout, also called the BP Oil Spill, or Deepwater Horizon Incident, is the new jargon in the vocabulary of...
