One Year After Oil Spill, the Gulf Is Still Screwed 5.09K Jeff Neumann 04/20/11 07:22AM Filed to: Briefly Briefly oil spill Bp deepwater horizon Happy BP Oil Spill Anniversary! In honor of this, the AP reports that, "More than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico, with no cement plugging." Ugh.