There are numerous oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. If you are referring to the rig that suffered the recent disaster on April 20, 2010, it was called the Deepwater Horizon.
Deepwater Horizon
An explosion on a oil rig.
in the gulf of Mexico
The oil company BP had an oil spill on its rig in the gulf.
Louisiana
April 20, 2010
There was a oil rig owned by BP that exploded.
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, while drilling the Maconda well. It is not an oil carrier or tanker.
There is not one, but there numerous oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. Their purpose is to pump the oil from the oil deposits located deep within the sea bed in that region.
On the 20th April 2010.
The oil is coming from the deepwater horizon rig. It exploded causing a oil spill
11 men died.