Gulf of mexico oil spill 2020. Ten years ago today on july 15 2010 after 87 days and more than 200 million gallons of oil spilled the deepwater horizon oil well was plugged bringing an end to the first phase of one of the worst environmental disasters in us. Cia headquarters located beneath cern at lake geneva in switzerland plotting cyber andor real world oil andor gas related attacks environmental disasters explosions andor oil spills on august 21 2020 exactly 11475 days since cia. But the response has stretched out for years and scientists say theres still much more we.
Published april 17 2020 new orleans louisiana on april 20 2010 an explosion at the bp deepwater horizon oil rig released over 130 million gallons of crude oil into the gulf of mexico. Cia plotting august 21 2020 made for tv oil andor natural gas related environmental disaster andor oil fire or oil spill august 17 2020. The deepwater horizon dwh oil spill likely affected ecosystem services in the gulf of mexico.
To test this hypothesis we configured a ecopath with ecosim model and quantified the effects of commercial fisheries and particulate organic carbon poc sequestration from 2004 to 2014 encompassing dwh. Toxic oil pollution has been detected in thousands of fish in the gulf of mexico 10 years after the bp deepwater horizon oil spill. The spill was the largest in us.
History and released millions. If you are paying by check please make it out to gulf of mexico alliance and mail to. February 12 2020 at 200 pm est the spread of oil from the deepwater horizon disaster in the gulf of mexico was far worse than previously believed new research has found.
The gulf of mexico oil spill. The deepwater horizon oil spill also referred to as the bp oil spill oil leak or oil disaster. Published april 20 2020 the bp oil spill of 2010 started suddenly explosively and with deadly force.