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The map below, generated by the interactive map tool, shows the extent of the oil on the water as of June 14 (light blue means light oil levels present, while dark blue means heavy levels present ...
According to the satellite images, the spill directly affected 70,000 sq mi (180,000 km 2) of ocean, comparable to the area of Oklahoma. [4] [49] By early June 2010, oil had washed up on 125 mi (201 km) of Louisiana's coast and along the Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama coastlines.
Oil smoothes the ocean surface, making the Sun’s reflection brighter near the centerline of the path of the satellite, and reducing the scattering of sunlight in other places. As a result, the oil slick is brighter than the surrounding water in some places (image center) and darker than the surrounding water in others (image lower right).
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.
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 ...
An oil spill, which appeared to originate from Venezuela's El Palito refinery several days ago, has contaminated a bay off the country's north-central coast in the Caribbean Sea, five sources told ...
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PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) -A week after an oil spill was first spotted near Tobago's shore, portions of the stain are moving in opposite directions into the Caribbean Sea, the island's emergency ...