3 million barrels (130,000,000 U.S. gallons; 480,000 cubic meters)[1]
Area
2,800 km2 (1,100 sq mi)
Shoreline impacted
261 km (162 mi)
Ixtoc 1 was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco 135 in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km (62 mi) northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche in waters 50 m (164 ft) deep.[2] On 3 June 1979, the well suffered a blowout resulting in the largest oil spill in history at its time. To-date, it remains the second largest oil spill in history after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[3]
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^Elena Egawhary (7 May 2010). "How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?". BBC News. oil spilled ... first Iraq War, 1991. ... Although not a single offshore spill, it saw massive oil leaks that easily dwarf Ixtoc 1
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