Macondo Prospect

Macondo field
Location of Macondo field
Country	United States
Region	Gulf of Mexico
Location	Mississippi Canyon
Block	252
Offshore/onshore	offshore
Coordinates	28°44′12″N 88°23′13″W / 28.736667°N 88.386944°W / 28.736667; -88.386944
Operator	BP
Partners	BP (90%) MOEX Offshore 2007 (10%)
Field history
Discovery	2010
Production
Estimated oil in place	50 million barrels (~6.8×10^6 t)

The Macondo Prospect (Mississippi Canyon Block 252, abbreviated MC252) is an oil and gas prospect in the United States Exclusive Economic Zone of the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. The prospect was the site of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion in April 2010 that led to a major oil spill in the region from the first exploration well, named itself MC252-1 (nicknamed also Macondo-1), which had been designed to investigate the existence of the prospect.