A NASA satellite saw smoke from the burning Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010.

2010年4月20日，NASA的一颗卫星观测到从燃烧着的深水地平线石油钻井平台上飘起的烟雾。

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The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig last week in the Gulf of Mexico was without question a human tragedy.

毫无疑问，上周墨西哥海湾深水地平线石油钻塔发生爆炸无疑是人类的灾难。

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Oil is continuing to leak into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April.

自从今年四月“深水地平线”钻井平台发生爆炸之后，原油就在源源不断地流向墨西哥湾。

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When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded last month spewing oil into the Gulf, Robey shelled out nearly $3,000 dollars to stockpile 600 pounds of shrimp.

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BP stopped the oil from billowing into the Gulf on Thursday, for the first time since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers.

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On April twentieth an oil drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon, exploded and sank about eighty kilometers from the Louisiana coast.

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Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, has agreed to a settlement with the US government.

BBC: Transocean agrees to pay $1.4bn oil spill fine

By now, everyone realizes the tremendous environmental and economic disaster that has become of the accidental explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig five weeks ago.

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Mr Hayward, who resigned from BP in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster, became a senior independent director of Glencore after the commodities group listed on the stock market in 2011.

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