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    Ixtoc 1 was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco 135 in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km...
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    arrest, is going to spill [information] like the Exxon Valdez. List of oil spills Deepwater Horizon oil spill Ixtoc I oil spill Dead Ahead: The Exxon...
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    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...
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  • list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude oil with one...
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  • Gulf oil spill may refer to: Ixtoc I oil spill – Gulf of Mexico 1979 Gulf War oil spill – Persian Gulf 1991 Deepwater Horizon oil spill – Gulf of Mexico...
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  • Thumbnail for Efforts to stem the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
    -controlled waters; it is comparable to the 1979 Ixtoc I oil spill in total volume released (Ixtoc discharged 140 million US gallons (530,000 m3) to...
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    resulting in enormous amounts of oil leaked. Notable examples of such oil spills are Deepwater Horizon and Ixtoc I. While technologies for drilling in...
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  • 1001143. ISSN 1064-3389. S2CID 93238171. Hooper, Craig H. (1982). The IXTOC I oil spill : the Federal scientific response /. Boulder, Colo.: U.S. Dept. of...
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  • been three major oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico: The Ixtoc I oil spill, from June 1979 to March 1980 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, from April 2010...
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    000 m3) of oil, exceeding the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill as the largest ever to originate in U.S.-controlled waters and the 1979 Ixtoc I oil spill as the...
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    inspired by the events of the oil spill. The oil spill inspired Steve Earle's song "Gulf of Mexico". Ixtoc I oil spill Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico...
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    Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Ixtoc I oil spill). Produced water is also generated, which is water brought to the surface along with the oil and gas; it is...
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    offshore in the Gulf of Mexico and disrupted efforts to stop the Ixtoc I oil spill. Henri also caused flooding in portions of Mexico. In mid and late-September...
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  • Brittany, France, March 1978 Ixtoc I oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, June 1979 SS Atlantic Empress collision and spill near Trinidad and Tobago, August...
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  • gallons (530,000 m3) – topping 140-million-US-gallon (530,000 m3) Ixtoc I oil spill that was the previous biggest in the Gulf of Mexico. Senate Republicans...
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  • bubbles. It notes the Ixtoc I oil spill which was finally stopped by the two relief well approach after nine months and 22 days. Ixtoc was in 150 feet of...
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  • Dispersant (category Oil spill remediation technologies)
    2010-05-21. Jernelöv, Arne; Lindén, Olof (1981). "Ixtoc I: A Case Study of the World's Largest Oil Spill". Ambio. 10 (6): 299–306. ISSN 0044-7447. JSTOR 4312725...
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  • subsequent oil spill. The movie is based on "Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours", an article published in The New York Times. Transport portal Ixtoc I oil spill Ocean...
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    Gulf of Mexico, the Ixtoc I oil spill was finally capped by engineers of Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Mexico's government-operated oil company, who sealed...
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    Sahara Desert. The Ixtoc I oil spill in Mexico's Bay of Campeche in 1979. The Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea in 1988. The Kuwaiti oil fires following...
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    term was marked by SEDCO's involvement in the largest oil blowout in history, the Ixtoc I oil spill, which caused extensive environmental damage. Clements...
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  • spill ever, with loss of approximately 286,000 metric tons of oil to the marine environment.: 29  One month prior to the collision, the Ixtoc I oil spill...
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  • Thumbnail for Oil dispersant
    An oil dispersant is a mixture of emulsifiers and solvents that helps break oil into small droplets following an oil spill. Small droplets are easier...
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  • Thumbnail for Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico (United States)
    into the gulf. This oil spill was larger than the second largest oil spill at Ixtoc I which released 140 million gallons of crude oil into the Bay of Campeche...
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  • confused with the rig that suffered the blowout resulting in the Ixtoc I oil spill. That was the original Sedco 135, the first of the series built at...
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    June 3 Ixtoc I oil spill: A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be...
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    possible flooding in oil-rich coastlines. The storm affected cleanup operations of the Ixtoc I oil spill as it passed over the spill area, damaging a 310-ton...
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  • later the Arctic Seal was used for this purpose after the 1979–1980 Ixtoc I oil spill. Arctic Seal was also the first vessel to, in 1978, perform hyperbaric...
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    Oil well control is the management of the dangerous effects caused by the unexpected release of formation fluid, such as natural gas and/or crude oil...
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    death. June 3, 1979: Ixtoc I oil spill. The Ixtoc I exploratory oil well suffered a blowout resulting in the third largest oil spill and the second largest...
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