Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico (United States) blowout) began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8% to 31% larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill. In 2012, federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico produced of oil, which made up 19.5% of all U.S. oil production that year, and more than that of any U.S. state other than Texas. The 2012 production was less than the in 2009; however, due to new
Environmental impact of Gulf wars also been attributed to the Gulf Wars. Persian Gulf countries cooperate to clean up the ruin and prevent future havoc. This section of the report will mention what has been cleaned up and the future prevention. Over the last decade volunteer Kuwaiti divers have been busy cleaning the benthos. They have extracted two cannons and seven shells, partners with ministry of defining Walid Al-Shatti the leader of the Kuwaiti Divers Association said. In addition, it is common to find a turtle caught in fishing nets. What is more, Saudi Aramco was one of the largest contributors to the cleaning process.