oil blowout

基本解釋

The spill, resulting from a BP oil-well blowout, killed 11 people and spewed 200 million gallons of crude into the gulf.
那次英國石油公司由于油井爆裂導(dǎo)致的石油泄漏，造成11人死亡，噴出兩億加侖的原油進(jìn)入墨西哥灣。
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況下，它們足可以消耗盡某一區(qū)域所有的氧氣并創(chuàng)造出一個缺氧的“死亡地帶”，這將危及魚類和其他海洋生物。
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.
我們已經(jīng)目睹了新奧爾良市在卡特里娜颶風(fēng)面前是多么不堪一擊，也目睹了工業(yè)廢物如何造成墨西哥灣毀滅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