Oceanography, Vol. 29, No. 3, Special Issue on GoMRI Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science (SEPTEMBER 2016), pp. 50-63 (14 pages) ABSTRACTCrude oils are some of the most complex and ...

1979 – Exploratory well IXTOC 1 blew out in Mexico's Bay of Campeche in the ... causing — to date — the worst oil spill in U.S. history. 1990 – The Mega Borg spilled 5.1 million gallons of oil in the ...

Ocean floor expeditions near the site of the 1979 Ixtoc oil blowout seek to find out how the ocean is recovering three decades after the disaster. Scientists hope their work will shed light on the ...

June 3, 1979 – Ixtoc 1, an exploratory well ... businesses and property owners affected by the oil spill. November 7, 2001 – The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rules that the ...

the Gulf of Mexico was the scene of another catastrophic oil spill. On June 3, 1979, the Ixtoc exploratory oil well suffered a blowout in the Bay of Campeche resulting in one of the largest oil ...

More than 1 million gallons of oil have flowed into Gulf of Mexico waters following a pipeline leak first reported Friday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Although the situation is still ...

Laura Moss is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience writing about science, nature, culture, and the environment. The global thirst for crude oil for transportation, heating, plastic ...

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 ...

A catastrophic oil spill in the Pacific Ocean off the ... meaning that both the Deepwater Horizon spill and the Exploratory well IXTOC 1 spill were both larger by around 13 and 11 times respectively.