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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 gallons of oil was released into the gulf.
The Atlantis oil field is the third largest oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. The field was discovered in 1998 and is located at the Green Canyon blocks 699, 700, 742, 743, and 744 in United States federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico about 130 miles (210 km) from the coast of Louisiana. The oil field lies in water depths ranging from 4,400 to ...
The field is being developed by BP plc and 25% partner ExxonMobil [1] It is the largest offshore production platform in the Gulf, with a processing capacity of 250 thousand barrels per day (40 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d) of oil and 200 million cubic feet per day (5,700,000 m 3 /d) of natural gas, and the field is believed to hold in excess of 1 billion barrels (160 × 10 ^ 6 m 3) of oil. [2]
Pliocene - Pleistocene sands. Eugene Island block 330 oil field is an oil field in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located 170 miles (270 km) southwest of New Orleans, 70–85 miles (113–137 km) off the Louisiana coast comprising six and a half leased blocks: Eugene Island 313, 314 south, 330, 331, 332 ...
7 t) Mad Dog Oil Field is an offshore oil field located along the Sigsbee Escarpment at Green Canyon blocks 825, 826 and 782, Western Atwater Foldbelt, Gulf of Mexico. The field is located about 190 miles (310 km) south of New Orleans and 150 miles (240 km) southwest of Venice, Louisiana, United States. It is in the depth of 5,000 to 7,000 feet ...
Estimated oil in place. 3,000 million barrels (~4.1 × 10. ^. 8 t) Producing formations. Lower Tertiary. The Kaskida Oil Field is an offshore oil field located in the Keathley Canyon block 292 of the United States sector of the Gulf of Mexico, 250 miles (400 km) south-west of New Orleans, Louisiana. The field is operated by BP, and owned by BP ...
Also in July 2017, Premier Oil, Talos Energy, and Sierra Oil & Gas announced that exploratory drilling in the Zama-1 field, located in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, had uncovered a formation with between 1.4 billion and two billion barrels of light crude oil. Because not all oil present in such a formation is technically recovered ...
U.S. oil producers scrambled Monday to evacuate staff from Gulf of Mexico oil production platforms as the second hurricane in two weeks was predicted to tear through offshore oil producing fields ...