The oil slick resulted from an accident at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

这片浮油是由于处于墨西哥湾的“深海地平线”钻井平台的一次事故造成的。

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At 10 PM that same night, a technician pressed a start button for the liquid gas pumps and the world 's most expensive oil rig accident was set in motion.

在当天夜里10点，技术人员按下按钮让液态气体泵开始工作，同时为史上最昂贵的石油钻井事故埋下了伏笔。不到两个小时，300英尺高的平台就被大火吞没。

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A large patch of oil was visible near the site of the accident, and a long ribbon of oil stretched far to the south-east.

可见一大片的浮油斑点靠近事故地点。长条的浮油带延伸到东南地区。

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Again Dean Cheng "So it's no accident that Venezuela and Nigeria, of course,both have oil.

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Green activists fear an accident involving an oil rig or pipeline could ruin the sea.

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Those fears were heightened recently by the Kulluk accident - a Shell oil rig that ran aground in Alaska.

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Chevron was slammed in the press for the accident, though the oil sheen was cleaned off the surface of the Atlantic in less than two weeks and no oil washed up on the famed Rio de Janeiro beaches.

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