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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. Perdido (oil platform) - Wikipedia

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   Perdido (Spanish for lost) is the deepest floating oil platform in the world at a water depth of about 2,450 meters (8,040 feet) operated by the Shell Oil Company in the Gulf of Mexico. [1] The platform is located in the Perdido fold belt which is a rich discovery of crude oil and natural gas.

4. 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 20 April 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]

5. Once praised, settlement to help sickened BP oil spill ... - AOL

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   When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of ...

6. Tiber Oil Field - Wikipedia

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   The Tiber Oil Field is a deepwater offshore oil field located in the Keathley Canyon block 102 of the United States sector of the Gulf of Mexico. The deepwater field (defined as water depth 1,300 to 5,000 feet (400 to 1,520 m), [ 2 ] ) was discovered in September 2009 and it is operated by BP .

7. Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (June 2010)

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   NOAA opens 8,000 square miles (21,000 km 2) of the Gulf to fishing 78,597 square miles (203,600 km 2) —approximately 32.5 percent of federal areas in the Gulf are still closed. [ 153 ] Allen "Rookie" Kruse of Orange Beach, Alabama , a captain of a vessel of opportunity charter boat being used in the cleanup is found dead in a suicide on one ...