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As night settled on April 20, 2010, a series of explosionsrocked Deepwater Horizon, the immense semisubmersible drillingplatform leased by British Petroleum, located 40 miles off theLouisiana coast. The ensuing inferno claimed 11 lives, and it wouldrage uncontained for two days, until its wreckage sank to a finalresting place nearly a mile beneath the waves. On the ocean floor,the unit's wellhead erupted. Over the next ten weeks, as repeatedattempts to cap the geyser failed, an estimated 200 million gallonsof oil—the equivalent of 20 Exxon Valdez spills—spewed into theGulf of Mexico, eventually lapping up on beaches as far away asFlorida.
Drowning in Oil, by award-winning Houston Chronicle businessreporter and columnist Loren Steffy—considered by many to be thewriter with the best access to the story—is an unprecedented andgripping narrative of this catastrophe and how BP's winner-take-allbusiness culture made it all but inevitable.
Drowning in Oil, by award-winning Houston Chronicle businessreporter and columnist Loren Steffy—considered by many to be thewriter with the best access to the story—is an unprecedented andgripping narrative of this catastrophe and how BP's winner-take-allbusiness culture made it all but inevitable.