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Drilling rig Deepwater Horizon

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RE: Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion refers to the April 20, 2010 explosion and subsequent fire on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU), which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field about 60 km southeast of the Louisiana coast.
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NASA Looks Back at Gulf Oil Spill

The site of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which began April 20, 2010 with the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, continues to be monitored daily by NASA satellites. A selection of those images captured over the past year by the MODIS instrument on board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites have been compiled for this timelapse video.

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US grants first deepwater drill permit since Gulf spill

The US has granted the first new permit for deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico since last year's spill at a BP-owned oil well there.
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The US government has said the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the biggest oil leak ever, as BP prepares its "static kill" operation to permanently seal its well.
A new government estimate suggests BP's Macondo well leaked 4.9 million barrels of oil before being capped last month.
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BP to try well kill Tuesday

BP said on Friday it could seal its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by next week as the House of Representatives voted to toughen regulation of offshore energy drilling.
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Testing of BP's newly capped Gulf of Mexico oil well has been extended for a further 24 hours.
The US official in charge of the spill clean-up, Admiral Thad Allen, said the "integrity test" would not stop until Sunday afternoon.
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EPA Response to BP Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

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A new cap placed over a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has begun to funnel oil to the surface.
US Coast Guard Adm Thad Allen said a rough estimate showed that about 1,000 barrels a day was being captured.
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