November 16, 2010 - Roland Horne begins the first of a series of two lectures with an overview of what led to the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig on April 20, 2010, and the subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. Roland Horne is the Thomas Davies Barrow Professor in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering in the School of Earth Sciences. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ School of Earth Sciences: http://www.earthsci.stanford.edu/ Center For Ocean Solutions: http://www.centerforoceansolutions.org/ Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford: http://woods.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/index.php Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford: http://pie.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanford