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NIGERIA • Les marées noires oubliées du delta du Niger | Courrier international
Contrats Le Nigeria, huitième pays exportateur de pétrole brut, a signé, mi-mai, avec une entreprise d’Etat chinoise un contrat de 23 milliards de dollars (18,9 milliards d’euros) pour construire trois raffineries, qui devraient à terme produire l’équivalent de 750 000 barils par jour, et un complexe pétrochimique.Crisis Response - Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
The Crisis Response team is no longer actively maintaining this page so some information may be out of date, or no longer available. On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on the semi-submersible offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 rig workers and injuring 17 others. On April 24, it was found that the wellhead was damaged and was leaking oil into the Gulf.
On April 20th, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon left 17 workers injured and 11 missing and presumed dead. For over three months, oil spilled from a well 5000 feet below sea level, discharging over 500,000 gallons of crude oil a day (19,000 barrels), according to the USGS. It is estimated that more than 120 million gallons of crude oil have spewed into the Gulf so far. But how big is the spill, really? It's hard to get a sense of the true size when it's over the ocean floor. Use the links below to see how large the spill is.
