BP Oil Spill In The Gulf Of Mexico

On 20 April 2010, a histroy has been made in the United States of America. The world’s largest gas releasing and explosion had been occurred on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig working on Macondo exploration well for BP in the Gulf of Mexico. BP, which is a short form for British Petroleum, one of the world’s renowned supermajor oil and gas companies. After the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a sea-floor oil gusher flowed for 87 days which was the longest oil spilling in the history. Before the rig was sunk, the fire had been burning for 36 hours straight and hydrocarbons leaked into the Gulf of Mexico until it was capped on 15 July 2010. In the accidents, seventeen people were injured and eleven people were reported missing.