Deepwater Horizon was a fifth-generation, RBS-8D design (i.e. model type), deepwater, , column-stabilized, semi-submersible , designed to drill wells for oil explorati. .
Deepwater Horizon was built for R&B Falcon (which later became part of ) by in , South Korea. Construction started in December 1998, the was laid on 21 March 200. .
At 7:45 p.m. on 20 April 2010, during the final phases of drilling the exploratory well off the gulf of Mexico, a geyser of seawater erupted from the onto the rig, shooting 70 metres (230 ft) into the air. This wa. .
Transocean received an early partial insurance settlement for total loss of the Deepwater Horizon of US$401 million about 5 May 2010. noted that the insurance recovery was likely to be more than t.
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