Odyssey (launch platform)
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LP Odyssey is a self-propelled semi-submersible mobile spacecraft launch platform converted from a mobile drilling rig in 1997.
Odyssey at a graving dock in Esquimalt, British Columbia
Ocean Odyssey in her original drilling rig configuration
Odyssey at port, with Sea Launch Commander behind
Blowout (well drilling)
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A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed. Modern wells have blowout preventers intended to prevent
Odyssey (launch platform)
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The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop, Texas (1901)
Ixtoc I oil well blowout
Macondo-1 well blowout on the Deepwater Horizon rig, 21 April 2010
Government Accountability Office diagram showing subsea well containment operations