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Deepwater Horizon
The Gulf of Mexico, spring two thousand ten. Forty-one miles from the Louisiana coast, a floating city hums above black water. It’s the Deepwater Horizon—engineered for triumph, suspended above risk, and about to face a question the industry thought it had already answered.Offshore, the Deepwater Horizon was more than steel and oil. It was a symbol of ambition, a testament to how far technology could push into the restless deep. The rig was nine years old, a semisubmersible built for pressure and darkness. It drilled the Macondo prospect for BP, operated by Transocean, with Halliburton…
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