The explosion of the “Deepwater Horizon” drilling rig on April 20, 2010 triggered the worst oil disaster in the history of the United States. 11 workers died and 17 were injured at the explosion. Until BP managed to cap the gushing oil wellhead on July 15, 2010, 90 million to 180 million gallons of crude oil were released into the Gulf of Mexico.

How to stay informed?

Due to the massive amount of information which mainstream news media spread, people all over the world watch and comment this horrible event.

The most important thing for affected people is to keep informed. So I collected a few links which might be interesting.

Oil spill related blogs and websites

• Florida Oil Spill Law
• The Oil Drum
• SpillBabySpill.com
• MarkIMoore
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• EPA Information about dispersants
• Life After The Oil Crash Forum
• BP’s ‘Nightmare’ Well: Internal Documents Uncover Negligence | Wired Science | Wired.com

Oil spill maps, satellite images and monitoring

• spillmap.org
• NOAA BP oil spill response
• NOAA Ship Tracker
• Deepwater Horizon Response Air Monitoring
• Gulf Oil Spill Tracker by SkyTruth.org
• www.geoplatform.gov/Gulfresponse by ERMA

Live video streams from ROVs at the capped oil wellhead

• Official BP website
• Spillcam on globalwarming.house.gov
• JTnog.org
• bp.isevil.org
• data.plan9.de
• List of direct stream URLs

Help now!

• Ocean Conservancy
• Environmental Priorities Coalition
• Gulf Wildlife Petition

People to follow on Twitter

• BPGulfLeak
• BPoilpocalypse
• BP_America – official BP tweet
• SpillBabySpill
• TheOilDrum
• l33chbert

If you think there are links missing, please comment on this post and I will add them all!