Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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title:
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 to 31 percent larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill, also in the Gulf of Mexico. Caused in the aftermath of a blowout and explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, the United S
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Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
date created:
2010-04-21T13:59:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T23:59:43Z
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