A week before the explosion, a BP drilling engineer wrote, "This has been [a] nightmare well." By April 20 the Deepwater Horizon was six weeks behind schedule, according to MMS documents ...

The oil spill, which happened in April 2010, was broadly considered one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. It began following an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling ...

Oil giant BP has agreed to pay $20bn to settle claims with the US stemming from the company's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. An explosion on BP's deep-water drill, off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 ...