The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion was the April 20, 2010, explosion and subsequent fire on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field about 40 miles (60 km) southeast off the Louisiana coast. The explosion and subsequent fire resulted in the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and the deaths of 11 workers; 17 others were injured. The same blowout that caused the explosion also caused a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the world, and the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history
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My wife had to force me to go see it because I figured it was another Halliburton hate film. But it wasn't. Glad we were in a dark theater when we saw it.
Deepwater Horizon is a very well done movie. We, as employees of Halliburton and Weatherford should all watch it and take note of what happened. God bless all those folks that survived and rip to those folks who lost their lives, so sad!