the new action movie Deepwater Horizon, about the response to BP's offshore drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) in 2010, killing 11 people and creating the worst oil spill in U ...

(I covered the oil spill for The Washington Post and ... Fire engulfed the rig. Eleven people died. Much of the movie is devoted to the fiery chaos that night. It’s the “Towering Inferno ...

Director Peter Berg’s film, based on events leading up to the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of ... Horizon" is the massive oil rig set after which the movie is named. Given that the real rig ...

For many, the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon disaster brings to mind the environmental devastation of the spill: Crude oil ... them who died — on the oil rig, which exploded April 20 ...

The millions who remained unaware of deaths on the rig included stars of the Louisiana-filmed “Deepwater Horizon,” along with the movie’s ... preceded the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

This "floatel" had a gymnasium, movie theater ... into the air, and oil was raining down on the two-dozen or so boats trying to fight the fire and ferry survivors. The rig was engulfed and ...

But the enemy is different this time: the worst oil spill disaster in ... say that the percentage of the movie’s audience who understand the mechanics of oil rigs is pretty low (even if it ...

Most people seem to remember that the Macondo/Deepwater Horizon blowout (more about this terminology below) caused the worst environmental oil spill ... The movie shows confused rig staff trying ...

BP’s oil rig in the Gulf. In April 2010, it caught fire and exploded, killing 11 crew members and resulting in the largest offshore oil spill in United States history. Talks are in the early ...

The 160 workers on Shell's Perdido oil platform have ... in the explosion of the oil rig controlled by BP in April of 2010. That disaster led to the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.

Deepwater Horizon workers did a hip-hop safety dance aboard the oil rig. May 4, 2010 &#151 ... what could become one of the worst oil spill disasters in the nation's history.

effectively ending litigation stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and subsequent oil spill. Former BP executive David Rainey was acquitted on charges of lying to congressional ...