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Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010, the emphasis has been on capping the oil well and protecting the shoreline. The immediate environmental impact is clearly visible. However, the direct and indirect economic impacts in the coastal areas of the five Gulf States are not yet fully known. Dun and Bradstreet, a world leader in business information and commercial insight, has prepared a preliminary analysis of the potential economic impact.
Baker Hughes Incorporated - Rig counts
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Baker Hughes Inc. is an oil field service company. Baker Hughes has issued the rotary rig counts as a service to the petroleum industry since 1944. The Baker Hughes Rig Counts are an important business barometer for the drilling industry and its suppliers.
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The BP web site.
BP Gulf of Mexico Regional Oil Spill Response Plan | Public ...
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A downloadable .pdf of BP's response plan that was in place at the time of the disaster.
BP to Donate Net Revenue from MC252 Well | Press release | BP
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As part of its commitment to restore the environment and habitats in the Gulf Coast region, BP today announced that it will donate the net revenue from oil recovered from the MC252 spill to create a new wildlife fund to create, restore, improve and protect wildlife habitat along the coastline of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. The creation of this fund is over and above BP’s obligations under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.
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This site has been created to serve as a community resource and meeting space for the residents of Alabama. On these pages you will find community news, information and content related to the Deepwater Horizon response.
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This site has been created to serve as a community resource and meeting space for the residents of Florida. On these pages you will find community news, information and content related to the Deepwater Horizon response.
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This site has been created to serve as a community resource and meeting space for the residents of Louisiana. On these pages you will find community news, information and content related to the Deepwater Horizon response.
BP | Mississippi Gulf Response
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This site has been created to serve as a community resource and meeting space for the residents of Mississippi. On these pages you will find community news, information and content related to the Deepwater Horizon response.
Deepwater Horizon accident investigation report
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Report of BP's internal investigation.
Failure of Rig's Last Line of Defense Tied to Myriad Factors - NYTimes.com
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NYTimes investigative report into engineering, business, and regulatory oversight failures connected to blowout preventers used in Gulf Oil Wells. By David Barstow, Laura Dodd, James Glanz, Stephanie Saul and Ian Urbina. With links to documents from engineering studies of blowout preventer failures.
Gulf of Mexico response | Oil spill | BP
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BP's Deepwater Horizon response page.
Monitoring and sampling information | Gulf of Mexico response ...
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This section includes the data as well as the sampling and monitoring programs and plans. Please note that much of this sampling and monitoring is being undertaken for the purpose of the response. Plans and techniques are based on needs and may change with changing incident management circumstances.
Conditions encountered in the field may necessitate deviation from an event-specific plan to ensure collection of reliable data. Additionally, it is important to note that there are other agencies and organizations collecting data which is not directed by BP. That data is not discussed in this summary. Results and plans will be updated as they become available.
Risk Assessment of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout Preventer (BOP) Control System, April 2000
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Documents from several engineering studies of blowout preventer reliability. Documents obtained by NYTimes, in connection with its 6/21/10 investigative report, "Failure of Rig's Last Line of Defense Tied to Myriad Factors: Regulators Failed to Address Risks in Oil Rig Fail-Safe Device"
