The oil spill I am writing about is the Ixtoc 1 spill. The reason why this oil spill occured is because the Ixtoc 1 oil well suffered a blow out(uncontrollable release of crude oil after the pressure systems fail). Cause of the spill: the crew workers were removing the pipe, mud flowed out and following the mud came oil and gas. The oil and gas met the operating pump motors which exploded and caused a fire. The location of the spill was in the Bay of Campeche off Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico. The type of oil that was leaking was a heavy crude oil because it came from deeper within the ocean's floor. The amount of oil that leaked in this spill was about 140,000,000 gallons. Another fact I learned was that this spill was and still is ranked the largest oil spill ever. I also learned that this spill was hard to clean up because it mixed in with the water and became a thick liquid.
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