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Offshore drilling for oil and gas on the Atlantic coast of the United States took place from 1947 to the early 1980s. Oil companies drilled five wells in Atlantic Florida state waters and 51 exploratory wells on federal leases on the outer continental shelf of the Atlantic coast. None of the wells were completed as producing wells.
A number of states, including California and Florida, have banned leasing of state waters for oil and gas drilling. In 2009 a bill that would have partially rescinded a ban on oil and gas leasing of Florida state waters failed in the Florida statehouse (see Offshore oil and gas in Florida).
Clearwater Land & Minerals FLA asked the state in December to conduct exploratory drilling at a well site constructed by Cholla Petroleum of Dallas and abandoned in 2021.
In December, Clearwater Land & Minerals FLA of Shreveport, Louisiana, applied for a state permit to conduct exploratory drilling at the site. In April, DEP gave notice that it intended to grant ...
Oil drilling platform about two miles (3 km) off the coast of California, near Santa Barbara. In 1969 drilling bans were established for offshore California and Florida, and in 1990 President George H. W. Bush banned offshore drilling entirely. Nevertheless, offshore drilling continued in offshore Texas and Louisiana.
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 when an explosion struck the rig, it occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and sources estimated that between 134–206 million barrels of oil was released into the gulf.
President Trump's administration will not allow drilling for oil and gas off the coast of Florida after urging from the state's governor.