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Days of Oil and Silence: The Montara Blowout Nobody Agrees On
Days of Oil and Silence: The Montara Blowout Nobody Agrees On
The thought of a well gushing for seventy-five days in the remote Timor Sea is both terrifying and bewildering: estimates of the spill range from 1.2 million to over 9 million US gallons, and after fifteen years there is still no agreed total. How did a single cement failure beneath a jackup rig lead to months of futile fixes, legal fights, and a gap in the basic facts of the disaster?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline from the morning of 21 August 2009 through four failed relief well attempts and the inquiry that followed…
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