What happened in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill?
What happened in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill? On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 people. Two days later, the rig capsized, and the damaged pipe below the rig began spewing oil into the surrounding water. How did they clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2010? In the case of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, clean-up workers treated the oil with over 1.4 million gallons of various chemical dispersants. Scientists have found that the dispersant-oil mixture was rapidly colonized and broken down by bacteria...