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  2. Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia

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    Location: Macondo Prospect (Mississippi Canyon Block 252), in the North-central Gulf of Mexico, United States (south of Louisiana): Coordinates: 1]: Date: 20 April – 19 September 2010 (4 months, 4 weeks and 2 days): Cause; Cause: Wellhead blowout: Casualties: 11 people killed 17 people injured: Operator: Transocean under contract for BP [2]: Spill characteristics; Volume: 4.9 MMbbl ...

  3. Gulf War oil spill - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the Persian Gulf and the countries that surround it. The Gulf War oil spill, or the "Persian Gulf oil spill", was one of the largest oil spills in history, resulting from the Gulf War in 1991. [1] In January 1991, Iraqi forces allegedly began dumping oil into the Persian Gulf to stop a U.S. coalition-led water landing on their shores.

  4. NOAA Launches a New Interactive Map of the BP Gulf Oil Spill

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    In response to public interest on the BP (BP) oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a new customizable interactive map of the spill's ...

  5. Deepwater Horizon - Wikipedia

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    Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deepwater, dynamically positioned, semi-submersible offshore drilling rig [7] owned by Transocean and operated by the BP company. On April 20, 2010, while drilling in the Gulf of Mexico at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. [8]

  6. Expert: Area of Gulf Oil Spill Has Tripled

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    The surface area of a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill quickly tripled in size amid growing fears among experts that the slick could become vastly more devastating than it seemed just two ...

  7. Government Map Shows BP Oil Spill Could Hit East Coast - AOL

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    UPDATE: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released a new interactive BP oil spill map. It may have become the most popular video on the internet. The National Center for ...

  8. Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia

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    National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling begins two days of hearings at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside [109] July 15 – BP test cuts off all oil pouring into the Gulf at 2:25 pm. [110] However Thad Allen cautions that it is likely that containment operations will resume following the test. [111]

  9. Deepwater Horizon explosion - Wikipedia

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    The same blowout that caused the explosion also caused an oil well fire and a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the world, and the largest environmental disaster in United States history. [2] [3] [4]