Titlebook: BP and the Macondo Spill; The Complete Story Colin Read Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011 Acqui

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Theo E. Notteboom,Peter W. de LangenThe media described BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill as the largest spill in history. From April 20, 2010, the day the site first began leaking oil uncontrollably, the media regularly reported each time the leak was estimated to have surpassed other significant spill milestones.

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Shuaian Wang,Abdurahim Alharbi,Pam DavyLastly, I explore a spill that was less than half the size of the smallest spill documented previously. However, despite its smaller size, it was, until the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, the most significant spill in the minds of the American public, and has created the backdrop and the tone for media coverage ever since.

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Timeline for the Deepwater Horizon Oil SpillMarch 19 — Macondo Prospect lease purchased by a consortium of BP (65%), Anadarko Petroleum (25%), and Mitsui Oil Exploration (10%). This lease sale included 614 other prospect leases, of which 34.5% were at the depth of the Macondo Prospect or deeper.

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A Brief Natural History of OilOur fascination with oil is well-founded. Oil is now intertwined into our economy, our livelihood, and, increasingly, in our precarious energy future. The natural history of oil punctuates the earth’s natural history, dating back to an era not unlike our own — one of rising carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.