The Deepwater Horizon began its ill-fated effort in ... A long string generally has two barriers between the oil and the blowout preventer on the seafloor: a cement plug at the bottom of the ...

Dr. Jason Jolliff used surface oil estimates following the Deepwater Horizon blowout to forecast where oil would first hit shorelines 96 hours later, on May 14,2010. "If you're going to do ...