Oil Spill

The Oil Spill of 2010 occured on Tuesday, April 20th. When A Transocean rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded and caught fire. Of the 126 people on board at the time of the explosion, 115 crewmembers were accounted for, 11 people out of the 115, were missing. I believe the person who is to take to responsibilty for this tragedy is the BP, (formally)The British Petroleum Company, PLC then BP Amoco PLC.

Oil company BP shouldered some responsibility for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster Wednesday after an internal investigation of the spill, but assigned much of the blame to contractors Halliburton and Transocean. Bad cementing, a misread pressure test and an badly maintained blowout preventer all added to the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers aboard the Deepwater Horizon drill rig and led to the worst oil spill in U.S. history, BP's nearly 200-page report on the disaster concluded.