April 22 2010

Deepwater horizon sink

Major oil spill response activated, including a flotilla of response vessels, protective
boom, dispersant for use at sea and initial plans for relief wells.

April 25 2010
Efforts begin to seal the well
Efforts begin to activate the blowout preventer using submersible remote
operated vehicles. Ultimately, these were unsuccessful and the blow out
preventer did not seal the well

 May 3. 2010
– More than 2,000 volunteers trained to assist in the response effort.
 May 5, 2010
– BP makes $25m block grants to each of the states of Louisiana, Alabama,
Mississippi and Florida to help them implement oil spill contingency
plans.

 July 15, 2010

 Oil ceases to flow into the Gulf of Mexico.
As well integrity test begins and the three ram capping stack closed, shutting in the
well.

What company did BP was determined to respond swiftly and fairly

to claims from individuals, businesses and government entities

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust - $20-billion fund

During 2010, BP made payments to the trust totaling $5 billion and is
committed to making additional payments of $1.25 billion each
quarter until the end of 2013. BP has pledged certain Gulf of Mexico
assets as collateral for the trust

BP funded a $100-million charitable trust to recognize the financial

hardship of rig workers unemployed during the US government’s
moratorium on deepwater drilling. The Rig Worker Assistance Fund is
administered through the Gulf Coast Restoration and Protection
Foundation.

The first attempts to stop the oil spill were to use remotely operated underwater vehicles
to close the blowout preventer valves on the well head; however, all these attempts failed.
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The second technique, placing a 125-tonne (280,000 lb) containment dome (which
had worked on leaks in shallower water) over the largest leak and piping the oil to a
storage vessel on the surface, failed when gas leaking from the pipe combined with cold
water formed methane hydrate crystals that blocked the opening at the top of the dome.
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Attempts to close the well by pumping heavy drilling fluids into the blowout
preventer to restrict the flow of oil before sealing it permanently with cement ("top kill")
also failed

On July 10, 2010, the containment cap was removed to replace it with a better-fitting cap
consisting of a Flange Transition Spool and a 3 Ram Stack ("Top Hat Number 10").[139]
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On July 15 BP tested the well integrity by shutting off pipes that were funneling some
of the oil to ships on the surface, so the full force of the gusher from the wellhead went
up into the cap.[141][142] That same day, BP said that the leak had been stopped after all the
blowout preventer valves had been closed on the newly fitted cap.[11]