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

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   Cuba has three producing offshore oil fields within 5 km of its north coast opposite Florida. [10] The US Geological Survey estimates that the North Cuba Basin contains 5.5 billion barrels (870,000,000 m 3 ) of undiscovered petroleum liquids and 9.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, almost all in the offshore part of the basin.

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

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   The state of Louisiana issued its first offshore oil and gas lease in 1936, and the following year the Pure Oil Company discovered the first Louisiana offshore oil field, the Creole Field, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the shore of Cameron Parish, from a platform built on timber pilings in 10-to-15-foot-deep (3.0 to 4.6 m) water.

4. Environment of Florida - Wikipedia

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   There are two oil-producing areas in Florida. One is in South Florida, with 14 fields, and the other is in the western panhandle, with seven fields. The South Florida fields are located in Lee, Hendry, and Collier county. Florida’s first oil field, the Sunniland field, in Collier County, was discovered in 1943. It has since produced over 18 ...

5. 'A big price': Oil drilling application in Florida Panhandle ...

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6. List of oil fields - Wikipedia

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   The list is incomplete; there are more than 25,000 oil and gas fields of all sizes in the world. [1] However, 94% of known oil is concentrated in fewer than 1,500 giant and major fields. [ 2 ] Most of the world's largest oilfields are located in the Middle East , but there are also supergiant (>10 billion bbls ) oilfields in Brazil, Mexico ...

7. 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.

8. Apalachicola Riverkeeper challenges DEP plan to permit oil ...

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   The Apalachicola Riverkeeper is mounting a legal challenge to try to stop the latest effort to drill for oil in environmentally sensitive North Florida.. The nonprofit Riverkeeper filed a petition ...

9. Smackover Formation - Wikipedia

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   The 1922 discovery of the Smackover oil field, after which the Smackover Formation is named, resulted in a sizeable oil boom in southern Arkansas. [ citation needed ] In addition to being a petroleum reservoir, as of 2015, the brine from the Smackover Formation is the only source of commercial bromine in the United States.