An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, killed 11 workers and triggered the largest marine oil spill in history, releasing an estimated 4.9 million barrels of crude oil over 87 days before the well was capped. BP faced tens of billions of dollars in cleanup costs, fines and settlements, its CEO Tony Hayward resigned amid public outrage over the company's handling of the crisis, and the disaster prompted sweeping changes to U.S. offshore drilling regulation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was an environmental disaster beginning 20 April 2010 off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico, on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.
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How much oil was released in the Deepwater Horizon spill?
The United States federal government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 million barrels, making it the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry; the well was declared sealed on 19 September 2010.
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