Macondo Well Kept Nation, World's Attention From April to September

摘要

In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes a small town named Macondo that grows from a tiny settlement with limited contact with the outside world into a thriving city before ultimately being destroyed. Like it's fictional namesake, BP's Macondo well went from being a name on a federal permit that few outside the energy industry had ever heard of to being a promising oil and natural gas find for the UK supermajor to now being linked forever to the nation's worst maritime oil spill.