The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout)[6] is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed unabated for three months in 2010, and may be continuing to leak.[7][8] Named the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, its source was a sea-floor oil gusher resulting from the 20 April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion which claimed 11 lives.[9][10][11][12] The Deepwater Horizon drilled on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, block 252. The gushing wellhead was capped after 87 days, on 15 July 2010.[11][13] The total discharge is estimated at 4.9 million barrels (210 million US gal; 780,000 m3).[3] The well was declared sealed on 19 September 2010.[14]
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