A history of BP Oil Spill.
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BP admitted today its managers on the Deepwater Horizon missed key warning signs in the hours before the explosion aboard the oil rig, but an internal investigation put much of the blame on other companies involved in the well.
A 234-page report described eight main causes for the blast, which killed 11 men and created an environmental disaster. The full report also contained - within the detailed analysis of the operation - a comprehensive, minute-by-minute timeline of every event, as it happened. BP have also produced a graphic video animation.
This chart illustrates, in comparison with daily American or global consumption, five million barrels is just a drop in the (admittedly enormous) petroleum industry bucket.
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This week BP revealed record losses of GBP£5 million an hour after taking a near GBP£21billion hit for the catastrophic oil spill. Understandably, with oil continuing to spew out in the Gulf of Mexico, support, sympathy or benevolence for the company is hard to come by.
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The attention has shifted to the effects all that oil will have on wildlife and the ecosystem. Slate reports on where all of that BP oil could end up during the next 130 days, based on modeling data from the National Centre for Atmospheric Research.
The following visualizations will pause at interesting moments in each scenario.
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Obviously BP has lost a lot of money on their whole oil spill fiasco, but here's a different perspective on just how much money that is.
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been disastrous on many levels, but most of the damage that's been done has been to ecology of the surrounding areas and the health of the numerous species that inhabit it.
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BP's struggle to contain an oil spill off Louisiana coast. This interactive timeline charts events since the accident, the estimates of oil leaking into the ocean, and the clean-up costs for the worst environmental disaster ever to hit the US.
A visual look at the cause and affect that the oil spill has had on BP market value.