oil blowout

基本解释

The spill, resulting from a BP oil-well blowout, killed 11 people and spewed 200 million gallons of crude into the gulf.
那次英国石油公司由于油井爆裂导致的石油泄漏，造成11人死亡，喷出两亿加仑的原油进入墨西哥湾。
Give them a huge oil blowout, and they can use up enough oxygen to create anoxic “dead zones” that imperil fish and other sea creatures.
在如此大量的原油泄漏的情况下，它们足可以消耗尽某一区域所有的氧气并创造出一个缺氧的“死亡地带”，这将危及鱼类和其他海洋生物。
We’ve already seen how poor defenses left New Orleans vulnerable to Hurricane Katrina and how industrial folly and hubris led to a devastating blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
我们已经目睹了新奥尔良市在卡特里娜飓风面前是多么不堪一击，也目睹了工业废物如何造成墨西哥湾毁灭性的爆炸和原油泄漏事故。

Yesterday BP says it collected 27, 000 barrels of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout, up from 26, 000 on Monday.
FORBES: Oil Spill Estimate: $60 Billion-Plus
After this snafu, how much oil, then, is the blowout now pouring into the gulf?
FORBES: Oil Spill Estimate: $60 Billion-Plus
More hazardous still were fires out on oil platforms, such as the Bravo blowout in the North Sea in 1977 and the Piper Alpha disaster, off Aberdeen, in 1988, where the capping of the well had to be done in the face of mountainous seas.
ECONOMIST: Obituary