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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.
Thus, oil that would normally rise to the surface of the water was emulsified into tiny droplets and remained suspended in the water and on the sea floor. [194] The oil and dispersant mixture permeated the food chain through zooplankton. [191] [195] [196] Signs of an oil-and-dispersant mix were found under the shells of tiny blue crab larvae. [197]
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]
An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has grown to 1.1 million gallons. Scripps News Staff. November 22, 2023 at 7:04 PM. An oil spill seen in the Gulf of Mexico on Nov. 16, 2023.
Price of a barrel of oil (West Texas Intermediate – Cushing, Oklahoma) is $84.34. [37] April 25 – Oil sheen seen covering 580 square miles (1,500 km 2) and is 70 miles (110 km) south of Mississippi and Alabama coastlines and was 31 miles (50 km) from the ecologically sensitive Chandeleur Islands. BP begins process to establish two relief wells.
University of South Florida researchers report finding oil on the ocean floor in the DeSoto canyon challenging the reports that 75% of the oil has been captured, burned off, evaporated or broken down [48] 23 Kemp's ridley sea turtles are released back into the Gulf of Mexico near Cedar Key, Florida. [49]
In 2021, a spill occurred off the coast of Huntington Beach when an underwater pipeline running from the Elly platform to Long Beach leaked about 588 barrels (24,696 gallons) of oil.
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