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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. Bullwinkle (oil platform) - Wikipedia

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   Platform being towed out to sea. Bullwinkle was a 1,736 feet (529 m) [1] tall, pile-supported fixed steel oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico.Installed in 1988, the total weight of the platform was 77,000 tons, of which the steel jacket comprises 49,375 tons. [2]

4. Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia

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   March 2008 – The mineral rights to drill for oil at the Macondo well, located in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the United States sector of the Gulf of Mexico about 41 miles (66 km) off the Louisiana coast, were purchased by BP at the Minerals Management Service's (MMS) Lease Sale No. 206, held in New Orleans.

5. An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has grown to 1.1 ... - AOL

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   An oil spill seen in the Gulf of Mexico on Nov. 16, 2023 Efforts continued this week to contain an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that began last week and has now grown to more than a million ...

6. Seadrill Bags More Rig Work In U.S. Gulf Of Mexico - AOL

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   Seadrill has won new contract awards for two of its rigs – the West Neptune drillship and the Sevan Louisiana semi-submersible. Seadrill Bags More Rig Work In U.S. Gulf Of Mexico Skip to main ...

7. Thunder Horse PDQ - Wikipedia

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   Thunder Horse PDQ is a BP plc and ExxonMobil joint venture semi-submersible oil platform on location over the Mississippi Canyon Thunder Horse oil field (Block 778/822), in deepwater Gulf of Mexico, 150 miles (240 km) southeast of New Orleans, moored in waters of 1,840 metres (6,040 ft). [4]

8. Tiber Oil Field - Wikipedia

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   The field was announced on September 2, 2009, and BP shares rose 3.7 percent on the news. [5] [16] With Tiber joining at least ten other successful Lower Tertiary explorations in the area, [15] analysts viewed the announcement as a sign for optimism, [15] and a harbinger of renewed interest in, and production from, the offshore Gulf of Mexico ...

9. Deepwater drilling - Wikipedia

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   Deepwater drilling, [1] or deep well drilling, [2] is the process of creating holes in the Earth's crust using a drilling rig for oil extraction under the deep sea. There are approximately 3400 deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico with depths greater than 150 meters. [3] [full citation needed]