Deepwater Horizon's fierce lessons
Two years ago Friday, the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil-drilling rig was the scene of a devastating accident that killed 11 people, injured scores of others and led to a massive oil spill that created the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history.
These events stunned the nation, sent shock waves through the offshore oil and gas industry and reverberated around the world. The oil and gas industry and the U.S. government were forced to admit that the safeguards designed to prevent a deepwater blowout were not effective; that no one had prepared adequately for containing a subsea accident, and that tools for responding to a major oil spill had advanced little in the 20 years since the Exxon Valdez disaster.
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