April 19, 2011 5:00 pm
On April 20, 2010 an explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 men and led to the largest ever accidental offshore oil spill.
One year on, the FT looks at how the spill happened, the impact in numbers, and the current status of drilling in the region.
Sources: NOAA; Deepwater Horizon Response Unified Command; Environmental Protection Agency; BP; The National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
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Picture: US Coastguard
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