An oil platform, resulting in an oil spill.
Deepwater Horizon
There was a oil rig owned by BP that exploded.
It was not an oil tanker, but a drilling platform.
11 men died.
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, while drilling the Maconda well. It is not an oil carrier or tanker.
The oil is coming from the deepwater horizon rig. It exploded causing a oil spill
The cause of the oil spill was that gases in one pipe were building up and then it eventually exploded.
The Gulf of Mexico touches Texas and Florida.
The Gulf of Mexico.
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was from the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig that exploded and spilled 42,000 gallons of oil into the ocean every day. It finally ended on July 15, 2010.
The Gulf of Mexico is almost 10 times larger, stretching from Texas to Florida and south to Yucatan and Cuba. Numerically, the Gulf of Mexico is about 600,000 square miles in area, the Gulf of California only about 62,000 square miles.
An oil rig exploded and caught fire on April 20th 2010 killing 11 people