One year ago, an explosion rocked the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers, sinking the rig, and releasing a massive amount of crude oil into the ocean.
After midnight she stands there in her black rig rooted to the spot. Back of her is the little alleyway that blazes like an inferno.
When the rig sank, the riser broke near the top while remaining attached to the blowout preventer at the bottom, bending itself like a pretzel in its subsequent collapse.
But it took a team of engineers to rig it up.
The following images in this gallery chronicle the oil’s approach, starting with the burning rig a day after the explosion.
Edison, never shy about exploiting a situation to his advantage, especially if it could cripple a rival, therefore directed Brown to rig the chair to operate on AC.
British Petroleum is still racing against time to build a funnel to help contain the busted oil rig which is gushing oil into the Mexican Gulf - but the energy giant is unsure whether it will work.
But for the first time since 1999 it seems to have lost the ability to rig elections at will.
Above it the Q4000 rig and three attendant vessels have 50, 000 barrels of peculiarly heavy drilling mud and pumps capable of providing 30, 000 horsepower with which to muscle that mud into the well.
A big rig had tumbled down an embankment, and flames were crawling across its cab.
With a small boat and one sailor, a cat rig has the advantages of being simple to trim and very maneuverable when racing.
Workers at the rig tried to contain it, while responders scrambled to corral it, burn it or disperse it.
Even though much of the oil that spilled from last April's Deepwater Horizon rig explosion has been cleaned up, the future is still murky for people who make a living plying Gulf waters.
Oil from the massive Deepwater Horizon rig spill began reaching the U.S. Gulf Coast on Thursday night, making its first landfall along Louisiana's "bird's foot" delta and barrier marshes.
Connect the makeup line (s) and snub line to the rig tongs.
The Gulf spill could be one of the worst environmental disasters in U. S. history and the rig explosion killed 11 workers.
A rig pounds an inlet out of the coast, sending rubble rattling down a pipe to the sea.
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