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The bill follows President Donald Trump's executive order that directed federal agencies to change the body of water's name to the "Gulf of America" on federal maps.

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United ... with an average depth 5300 ft is a major body of water bordered and nearly landlocked by North America ...

"This geologic setting is different from what has previously been produced in the Gulf of Mexico and will ... in 8,009 feet of water. The well reached its final total depth on May 18, 2002.