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  2. Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico (United States)

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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.

  3. Offshore oil and gas in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The moratorium banned federal leasing through the year 2000 off the East Coast, West Coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico (offshore Florida Gulf Coast), and the Northern Aleutian Basin of Alaska. In 1998, President Bill Clinton extended the moratorium through 2012. In July 2008, President George W. Bush rescinded the executive order.

  4. Spindletop - Wikipedia

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    Gulf Coast oil fields (left) and Spindletop oil lease map (right) Spindletop is an oil field located in the southern portion of Beaumont , Texas , in the United States . The Spindletop dome was derived from the Louann Salt evaporite layer of the Jurassic geologic period. [ 2 ]

  5. Offshore drilling on the Atlantic coast of the United States

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    Five wells were drilled in Florida state waters in the Straits of Florida (in waters off the Florida Keys) from 1946 to 1962. Gulf Oil operated three wells in state waters south of the Florida Keys in 1959, 1960 and 1961, while Chevron (Calco) and Sinclair each operated one. The wells were considered to be dry holes, however, oil shows were ...

  6. Ports restrict navigation, some oil facilities shut as Milton ...

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    HOUSTON (Reuters) -At least one oil and gas platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was shut on Monday and Florida ports imposed restrictions on vessel navigation as Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified.

  7. Rigs-to-Reefs - Wikipedia

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    Rigs-to-Reefs was first explored in 1979 when the first oil rig was transported from Louisiana to a Florida site. [50] This rig was the first of 5 Rigs-to-Reefs towed to Florida's coast. Louisiana was the first state to develop a program that allowed transfer of liability and ownership from the operator to the state. [13] Texas later followed ...

  8. Analysis-US Gulf Coast oil prices to take center stage as ...

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    While shale oil output from the Permian basin in Texas and New Mexico, the largest U.S. oilfield, has surged 3.6% to average 6.1 million barrels per day (bpd) so far this year, much of that oil is ...

  9. Category : Gulf of Mexico oil fields of the United States

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    Gulf of Mexico oil fields of the United States. Pages in category "Gulf of Mexico oil fields of the United States" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.

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