What kind of oil rig was it?

Redstar95 ∙

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∙ 14y ago

Updated: 8/19/2019

If you are referring to the rig that suffered the major oil spill on April 10, 2010, it was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore oil drilling rig, named the Deepwater Horizon. Simply called a drilling rig.

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