Deepwater Horizon
If you are referring to the Deepwater Horizon desaster, the answer is no.
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.
The oil is coming from the deepwater horizon rig. It exploded causing a oil spill
Both. It caught fire after an explosion
it exploded because of a miscommunication under water in the drill :D
With a floating oil rig as sophisticated and advanced as the Deepwater Horizon (even though having been built in 2001 for a cost of $350 million), it would be in the estimate of $700 million upwards. It all depends on the task of the rig pertaining to the depth to be drilled, the composite of the area to be drilled, and the various equipment supplied on the rig.
There are numerous oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. If you are referring to the rig that suffered the recent disaster on April 20, 2010, it was called the Deepwater Horizon.
over 100 people
The coordinates of Deepwater Horizon are (28.73667, -88.38716) approximately 130 miles SE of New Orleans, in the Gulf of Mexico.
No oil. The Deepwater Horizon rig was drilling an exploratory well. It had cemented in the last production liner. The productive zone was supposed to be isolated from this production casing by cement at the bottom and a mechanical "packoff" at the top. The final steps would have been to set temporary cement plugs inside this last production liner and move off location. Another rig, (a completion rig) would have completed the well later, so it could flow to a production station.
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.