# Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Report : Judge Barbier **URL:** \ **Category:** Offshore\ **Created:** [September 6, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-report-judge-barbier/13323 "2014-09-06T20:14:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![New\_Orleans\_Lady](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/new_orleans_lady/32/635_2.png) [@New\_Orleans\_Lady](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New_Orleans_Lady)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-report-judge-barbier/13323/1 "2014-09-06T20:14:31Z")
Deepwater Horizon oil spill report-DOC-LA Times 9/04/14 Judge Barbier ruled BP’s “gross negligence" [http://t.co/OTjenlIW6e](http://t.co/OTjenlIW6e) U.S. Dis\*trict Judge Carl Barbier of New Orleans ruled that BP’s “gross negligence ” resulted in the 2010 DeepWater Horizon oil rig explosion that killed 11 people and spilled more than 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico ---
**Author:** ![Kennebec\_Captain](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/kennebec_captain/32/13_2.png) [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 6:12am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-report-judge-barbier/13323/2 "2014-09-11T06:12:00Z")
The linked document, the “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law” (the link in the OP) is a long but a worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in the DWH incident. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Orleans\_Lady](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/new_orleans_lady/32/635_2.png) [@New\_Orleans\_Lady](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/New_Orleans_Lady)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-report-judge-barbier/13323/3 "2017-06-06T17:01:00Z")
Donald Vidrine, Deepwater Horizon rig supervisor, dies at 69