Macondo oil field
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| Country: | United States | ||
| Region: | Gulf of Mexico | ||
| Location: | Mississippi Canyon | ||
| Coordinates: | 28.738369 N 88.365934 W (28 ° 44'17 "N 88 ° 21'57" W) |
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| Developed: | 2010 | ||
| Block: | 252 | ||
| Type: | Offshore | ||
| Operator: | BP | ||
| Partner: | BP (65%), Anadarko Petroleum (25%) and MOEX 2007 , which is owned by Mitsui & Co. (10%). | ||
| Estimated amount of oil deposits: | 50 million barrels | ||
| Oil-bearing layer: | Paleogene | ||
Macondo is a subsea offshore - oil and gas field in the Gulf of Mexico .
Surname
The name Macondo refers to a fantasy city in which the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez is set. Oil-producing companies often assign code names that do not reveal the exact location and are more memorable than technical names or coordinates.
Place and size
The responsible Minerals Management Service has divided the US coastal area into blocks in order to organize the exploitation. The Macondo field is located in block 252, which is in the submarine Mississippi Canyon area. British Petrol (BP) is the operator and exploiter of the field. BP receives 65% of the proceeds, while 25% is owned by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and 10% by MOEX Offshore 2007, a subsidiary of Mitsui & Co. According to statements by BP CEO Tony Hayward , the field is said to contain around 50 to 100 million barrels of oil which should be about 30% recoverable (15 to 30 million barrels). For comparison: the global daily oil consumption is currently around 88 to 89 million barrels.
accident
On 20 April 2010, the exploded oil rig Deepwater Horizon after a blowout of the well.
See also
- List of major oil spills
- List of accidents on drilling and production platforms
- Global oil production peak
- Background of deep sea drilling for oil production
Web links
- Info page of the operator BP
- Information from the Minerals Management Service
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gulf oil spill: What if BP taps leaking Macondo well again? . Article on the Macondo oil field, accessed June 7, 2010.