Stopping the spill : the five-month effort to kill the Macondo well

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Label

Stopping the spill : the five-month effort to kill the Macondo well

Title remainder

the five-month effort to kill the Macondo well

Statement of responsibility

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshre Drilling

Title variation

Five-month effort to kill the Macondo well

Creator

• United States, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling,
• United States, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

Creator

• United States, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
• United States, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling,

Subject

• BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill (2010)
• BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 -- Environmental aspects
• BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 -- Environmental aspects
• Deepwater Horizon (Drilling rig)
• Deepwater Horizon (Drilling rig)
• Deepwater Horizon (Drilling rig)
• Drilling platforms -- Equipment and supplies
• Drilling platforms -- Mexico, Gulf of -- Equipment and supplies
• Drilling platforms -- Mexico, Gulf of -- Equipment and supplies
• 2010
• Oil wells -- Mexico, Gulf of -- Blowouts | Maintenance and repair
• Oil wells -- Mexico, Gulf of -- Blowouts | Maintenance and repair
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Gulf of Mexico
• Oil spills
• Oil spills -- Mexico, Gulf of
• Oil spills -- Mexico, Gulf of
• Oil well cementing
• Oil well cementing
• Oil well cementing

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"The effort to contain and control the blowout of the Macondo well was unprecedented. From April 20, 2010, the day the well blew out, until September 19, 2010, when the government finally declared it "dead," BP expended enormous resources to develop and deploy new technologies that eventually captured a substantial amount of oil at the source and, after 87 days, stopped the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. The government organized a team of scientists and engineers, who took a crash course in petroleum engineering and, over time, were able to provide substantive oversight of BP, in combination with the Coast Guard and the Minerals Management Service (MMS).1 BP had to construct novel devices, and the government had to mobilize personnel on the fly, because neither was ready for a disaster of this nature in deepwater"--Page 1

Member of

• Staff working paper (United States. National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling), no. 6
• HeinOnline Reports of U.S. Presidential Commissions & Other Advisory Bodies Library
• HeinOnline Reports of U.S. Presidential Commissions and Other Advisory Bodies
• HeinOnline
• Staff working paper (United States. National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling) ;, no. 6

Cataloging source

OLA

Government publication

federal national government publication

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

TD427.P4

LC item number

U63 2011 ONLINE

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Staff working paper

Series volume

no. 6