![]() 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. ![]() 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 that began on 20 April 2010 off of the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be 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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