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Ixtoc I: 294 Days of Unstoppable Oil and a Scorched Gulf
Ixtoc I: 294 Days of Unstoppable Oil and a Scorched Gulf
The Gulf was burning for 294 days and three point three million barrels gushed from a single well that crossed international waters and crippled coastal life - how could a blowout resist every fix for nearly a year? What chain of errors and impossible failures kept oil flowing from June 3, 1979 until March 23, 1980?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the first sign - drilling mud vanishing into fractured rock - through the fire on the Sedco 135 and the long, costly attempts to stop the flow, asking how relief wells…
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