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Oil is not made, it is naturally formed through years of compression of dead phytoplankton on the ocean floor, specially near the coasts of shallow seas. The oil deposits found in the Gulf of Mexico formed this way, and are exploited by Mexico as well as the United States by using the same methods: offshore platforms extract the oil and send it through pipelines or by tanker ships to the refineries found near the coast.

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