Santa barbara, california

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Santa Barbara Well blowout; Santa Barbara, California.
Santa Barbara, California.
1. On January 28, 1969, the Union Oil Company well number 21 under Platform A, located 5.5 miles southeast of Santa Barbara, California, in the Dos Cuadras field, experienced a blowout while drill bits were being changed. A massive mixture of oil, gas, and drilling mud roared up the drill casing and spewed out onto the platform. Well A-21 was capped on February 7 with 13,000 barrels of heavy drilling mud. Oil continued to vent from natural faults several hundred yards from the platform, in tract 4042 between the coast and a chain of islands. The faults released a total of 100,000 barrels of oil until December 1969. A record-breaking storm immediately before the incident contributed to the large amount of oiled debris that needed to be collected as part of the spill response. On February 2, the National Pollution Contingency Plan, instituted by President Johnson in 1968, went into effect [...]
2. THREAT: OIL. COMMODITY: CALIFORNIA CRUDE OIL. MAXIMUM POTENTIAL RELEASE: 4200000 GALLONS. TAGS: WELLHEAD.
3. POSITION 34.167N 119.750W. NOAA INCIDENTNEWS 6206: https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/incident/6206