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Keywords
Aerial view
British Petroleum (BP)
Burning
Day
Deepwater Horizon
Disasters
Extraction platforms
Fires
KWCI (GPI)
Oceans (campaign title)
Oil (fossil fuel)
Oil (Industry)
Oil rigs
Oil spills
Outdoors
Ships
Spraying
Toxics (campaign title)
Water
Water cannons
Burning Oil from Oil Rig Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
The Q4000 multi-purpose oil field intervention vessel, bottom right, and the drillship the Discoverer Explorer, center, burn off material from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead near the disaster site. As many as 45 support ships are assigned to the area working to contain the leaking oil. The BP leased oil Deepwater Horizon platform exploded on April 20 and sank after burning.
Unique identifier:
GP02IZ4
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
17/06/2010
Locations:
Gulf of Mexico
,
Louisiana
,
North America
,
United States of America
Credit line:
© Daniel Beltrá / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
The BP (British Petroleum) leased oil platform Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20 and sank after burning, leaking an estimate of more than 210,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers died during the disaster.
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