Deepwater drilling, or deep well drilling, is the process of creating holes in the Earth's crust using a drilling rig for oil extraction under the deep sea. There are approximately 3400 deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico with depths greater than 150 meters. Deepwater drilling has not been technologically or. .
Drilling in deep waters can be performed by two main types of mobile deepwater drilling rigs: drilling rigs and . Drilling can also be performed from a fixed-position installation such as a fixed. .
On 20 April 2010, a deepwater oil rig () exploded, killing 11 and releasing 750,000 cubic meters (200 million gallons) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. With those numbers, many scientists consider this disaster to be one of the worst. .
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