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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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Ixtoc-Alfa is a counter-terrorism base
created by the
Mexican Navy for the
purpose of
preventing terrorist attacks on the country's Gulf of
Mexico oilfields...
- Mexico. The gulf's
largest oil
spill to date
began in June 1979, when the
Ixtoc I oil
platform in the Bay of
Campeche suffered a
blowout and a catastrophic...
- oil leaked.
Notable examples of such oil
spills are
Deepwater Horizon and
Ixtoc I.
While technologies for
drilling in deep
water have
significantly improved...
-
Final Hours", an
article published in The New York Times.
Transport portal Ixtoc I oil
spill Ocean Ranger Piper Alpha Tony
Hayward "Transocean Ltd., Form...
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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...
-
Cigarette Lighter" in 1962 in G****i Touil, Algeria, in the
Sahara Desert. The
Ixtoc I oil
spill in Mexico's Bay of
Campeche in 1979. The
Piper Alpha disaster...
- -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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marked by SEDCO's
involvement in the
largest oil
blowout in history, the
Ixtoc I oil spill,
which caused extensive environmental damage.
Clements faced...
- output, but it went into a
steep decline soon thereafter. On June 3, 1979,
Ixtoc I, an
exploratory oil well
located in the bay,
suffered a
blowout that caused...
