The Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Named in 1 episode title on this site. Kind: infrastructure-utilities.
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Place | Macondo Prospect (Mississippi Canyon Block 252), in the North-central Gulf of Mexico, United States (south of Louisiana) |
| Kind | infrastructure-utilities |
| Toll, as stated | 11 people killed; 17 people injured (casualties) -- Wikipedia infobox, Infobox oil spill (fetched 2026-09-20) |
| Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill |
After the problem: the environment
| Ecological impact | Macondo well blowout, 20 Apr 2010, spilled ~134M gallons of oil over 87 days into the Gulf of Mexico — the largest offshore oil spill in US history |
|---|---|
| Mechanism / vector | contamination — deepwater well blowout released crude oil continuously into the water column and onto Gulf shorelines |
| Remediation class | containable |
| Remediation status | BP + federal/state NRDA trustees; $8.8B settlement (2016); multi-year restoration ongoing through 2025+ |
| Interest (0–5) | 5 |