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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

I don't know for sure but... They just let the oil run until the pressure had subsided and then cleaned up the mess as best they could. There would have been large lakes of oil surrounding the drill site.

How much government over site was there at the time? I'm guessing almost none.

That was my understanding too.

I understood that there was natural gas that was in the "cavity" with the oil and the natural gas was what was acting like a propellant, and they had to wait for the natural gas to vent. Then the gusher would stop and they could deal with it. But I have no idea where I got that idea.