It occurred to me long ago that the 'Deep Water Horizon' incident in the Gulf of America seemed to be . . . white hats taking out a deep drilling platform that was trying to do that, to crack from world below the sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon
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This article is about the drilling rig. For other uses, see Deepwater Horizon (disambiguation).
Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible drilling rig
History
Name Deepwater Horizon
Owner Transocean's Triton Asset Leasing[1]
Operator BP
Port of registry
Panama (23 February 2001 – 28 December 2004)
Majuro (29 December 2004)
Route Gulf of Mexico
Ordered December 1998
Builder Hyundai Heavy Industries[2]
Cost US$560 million[3][4]
Way number 89
Laid down 21 March 2000
Completed 2001
Acquired 23 February 2001
Maiden voyage Long Beach, California – Freeport, Texas
Out of service 20 April 2010
Identification
ABS class no.: 0139290
Call sign: V7HC9
IMO number: 8764597
MMSI no.: 538002213
Fate Sank on 22 April 2010, after an explosion and fire
Notes Located in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 5,000 ft (1,500 m) at 28°44′30″N 88°23′3″W[5]
General characteristics
Class & type ABS +A1 DPS-3 Column Stabilized MODU
Displacement 52.587 Mg
Length 112 m
Beam 78 m
Height 97.5 m
Draught 23 m (75 ft)
Depth 41.5 m (136 ft)
Deck clearance 34.010 m (111.58 ft)
Installed power
7 MW 11 kV
6 × Wärtsilä 18V32 7.2 MW diesel engines
6 × ABB AMG 0900xU10 AC generators
Propulsion 8 × Kamewa 5.5 MW, 6.3 rad fixed-propeller azimuth thrusters
Speed 2 m/s
Capacity
Liquid mud: 700 m3
Drill water: 2100 m3
Potable water: 1200 m3
Fuel oil: 4500 m3
Bulk mud: 400 m3
Bulk cement: 250 m3
Crew 150
Notes [6][7]
Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig[8] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On 20 April 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away.[9] The fire was inextinguishable and, two days later, on 22 April, the Horizon collapsed, leaving the well gushing at the seabed and becoming the largest marine oil spill in history.[10][11]
Built in 2001 in South Korea by Hyundai Heavy Industries,[12] the rig was commissioned by R&B Falcon (a later asset of Transocean),[13] registered in Majuro, and under lease to BP from 2001 until September 2013.[14] In September 2009, the rig drilled the deepest oil well in history at a vertical depth of 35,050 ft (10,683 m) and measured depth of 35,055 ft (10,685 m)[15] in the Tiber Oil Field at Keathley Canyon block 102, approximately 250 miles (400 km) southeast of Houston, in 4,132 feet (1,259 m) of water.[16]
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