Workers continue to fight for help 11 years after Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Workers continue to fight for help 11 years after Deepwater Horizon Disaster By Nicondra Norwood | April 20, 2021 at 6:33 PM CDT - Updated April 20 at 8:32 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Tuesday, April 20, 2021 marks eleven years since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico killing eleven workers and starting the largest oil spill in Gulf history.
A group of cleanup workers are still fighting for help more than a decade later. The images of the massive fire and cleaning crews dominated the summer of 2010 after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded about 40 miles off the Louisiana coast and sank two days later.
Workers continue to fight for help 11 years after Deepwater Horizon Disaster
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The five companies are Royal Dutch Shell, BP (British Petroleum), France’s Total, ExxonMobil, and Chevron.
Acquisitions of new onshore and offshore exploration licenses for the top five Western energy giants dropped to the lowest in at least five years because of the epidemic, Rystad Energy analyst Palzor Shenga said.
“Acquiring additional leases comes with a cost, and it demands some work commitments to be fulfilled. Hence, companies would not want to pile up on additional acreages in their non-core areas of operations,” Shenga said.
Global oil demand encountered an unprecedented collapse of 8.8 million barrels per day in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Explained: What start of gas production in KGD6 means for India
The R cluster, along with the Satellite Cluster and MJ gas fields in the Krishna Godavari Basin are expected to produce around 30 MMSCMD of natural gas or about 15% of India’s projected demand for natural gas by 2023. Written by Karunjit Singh , Edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 20, 2020 10:35:09 am
Production of gas from the R cluster was expected to start in May 2020 but was delayed due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.(Representational image)
Reliance Industries Ltd and BP (British Petroleum) have announced the start of gas production from the R cluster, the deepest off-shore gas field in Asia. The field is the first of three deepwater gas projects in the KGD6 block jointly developed by RIL and BP to come onstream. RIL has a participating interest of 66.7% in the KG-D6 block and BP has a participating interest of 33.3% in the