![]() Reports in early 2012 indicated that the well site was still leaking. After several failed efforts to contain the flow, the well was declared sealed on 19 September 2010. Caused in the aftermath of a blowout and explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, the United States federal government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 MMbbl (210,000,000 US gal 780,000 m 3). The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the " BP oil spill") was an industrial disaster which began on April 20, 2010, off of the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest 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, also in the Gulf of Mexico. ![]() Frontline: The Spill (54:25), Frontline on PBS ![]()
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