For example, although the water depth at Ixtoc I was just 50 meters, compared with 1,500 meters for the current spill, it too generated subsurface oil plumes. That oil made its way around the Gulf ...

They're examining satellite data from the Ixtoc oil spill in 1979 off the Mexican coast to see how the area near the Deepwater Horizon spill might look in the future. David Levin has our report.

In the first installment, Lisa Gray looks back at the 1979 Ixtoc I oil spill off Mexico’s coast. PORT ARANSAS — Tony Amos has seen this disaster before. The explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

(Blogger's note: This post was changed from from an earlier version to correct a factual error in the size and rank of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Also, the IXTOC 1 ...

The Ixtoc well was drilling at 150ft compared with Deepwater Horizon at 5,000ft If the worried inhabitants of the southern coast of the US wonder what long-term effects the BP oil spill will have ...

Alabama and western Florida where the oil is on the beaches. So three to four years but it will recover," he said. Tunnell said it surprised him and the Ixtoc spill cleanup crews that 2 1/2 years ...

Three decades later, the 1979 Ixtoc disaster remains the Gulf’s - and the world’s - worst peacetime oil spill. It took 10 months to stop the leak, with Mexico’s stateowned oil company ...

NPR reported the collision spilled some 90 million gallons of oil. 3. The Ixtoc I oil spill released 140 million gallons of oil On June 3, 1979, the Ixtoc I oil rig exploded in the Bay of Campeche ...

Like the BP spill, the Ixtoc disaster began with a burst of gas followed by an explosion and fire, followed by a relentless gush of oil that resisted all attempts to block it. Plugs of mud and ...

That was Ixtoc 1, off the coast of Mexico. It was the worst peacetime oil spill on record. The current spill "is kind of a worst-case scenario," Tunnell said. What makes this spill relentless and ...

The Ixtoc well was drilling at 150ft compared with Deepwater Horizon at 5,000ft If the worried inhabitants of the southern coast of the US wonder what long-term effects the BP oil spill will have ...