Three decades later, the 1979 Ixtoc disaster remains the Gulf's — and the world's — worst peacetime oil spill. The parallels between that disaster and the current BP oil spill offer sobering ...

� Update: The Coast Guard said Tuesday that a sheen of oil that's been covering an area in the Gulf of Mexico since an oil rig exploded off the Louisiana coast is growing. As of Tuesday ...

The IXTOC I well continued to spill oil at a rate of 10,000 - 30,000 barrels per day until it was finally capped on March 23, 1980. Keyword: Boom, Corexit 9527, skimmer, ...

Along the Texas coast, they’ve lived this beforeMexico’s Ixtoc I oil spill in 1979 showed what could happen to our beaches - but our heads were buried in the sand ...

And passing Ixtoc just before the July Fourth weekend, a time of normally booming tourism, is bitter timing, he said. Special Section: Disaster in the Gulf Huge Skimming Ship Headed for Gulf Oil Spill ...

The blast at the Ixtoc oil well off the coast of Mexico in 1979 caused the largest ever peacetime oil spill - and has similarities to the current spill off Louisiana, as the BBC's Julian ...

The oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown-out well could effectively be contained in the next three days, National Incident Commander Thad Allen said today. Work to install a new ...

Like the BP spill, the Ixtoc disaster began with a burst of gas followed by an explosion and fire, followed by a relentless gush of oil that resisted all attempts to block it.

THE spill's long reach. An ecosystem that is altered perhaps forever. June 6, 2010. By Joel Achenbach. and ... "Sure enough, it was tar from the Ixtoc spill," Tunnell said. ...

Burning oil from the 1979 Ixtoc I spill off the Mexican Gulf Coast. Money to study the environmental damage from this disaster disappeared soon after the oil well was rendered dead.