Largest deep water oil rigs
Apr 23, 2015 Goliat, a giant floating oil platfom, sits on the Dockwise Vanguard, the It will become only the second rig producing oil offshore in the Arctic. Deepwater Horizon oil spill, largest marine oil spill in history, caused by an April 20, 2010, explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig—located in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 41 miles (66 km) off the coast of Louisiana—and its subsequent sinking on April 22. Perdido is the deepest floating oil rig (platform) in the world at a water depth of about 2450 meters operated by the Shell Oil Company in the Gulf of Mexico.