We will soon be coming to the 5th anniversary of the Macondo (Deep Water Horizon) well blowout.
I have come across a very good (lengthy) description of the time between
the blowout (4/20/10) and the well being capped and "dead" (9/19/10)
Probably not many will want to read it all (or even at all), but I found this discussion readable and interesting...
HERE
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The containment story thus contains two parallel threads. First, on April 20, the oil and gas industry was unprepared to respond to a deepwater blowout, and the federal government was similarly unprepared to provide meaningful supervision. Second, in a compressed timeframe, BP was able to design, build, and use new containment technologies, while the federal government was able to develop effective oversight capacity. Those impressive efforts, however, were made necessary by the failure to anticipate a subsea blowout in the first place. Both industry and government must build on knowledge acquired during the Deepwater Horizon spill to ensure that such a failure of planning does not recur.
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