List of oil spills - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spill
Oil spill
An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is mostly used to describe marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters...

s that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonne

Tonne

The tonne, known as the metric ton in the US , often put pleonastically as "metric tonne" to avoid confusion with ton, is a metric system unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. The tonne is not an International System of Units unit, but is accepted for use with the SI...

s of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons, or 7.33 barrels

Barrel (unit)

A barrel is one of several units of volume, with dry barrels, fluid barrels , oil barrel, etc...

, or 1165 liters. This calculation uses a median value of 0.858 for the specific gravity of light crude oil

Light crude oil

Light crude oil is liquid petroleum that has a low density and flows freely at room temperature. It has a low viscosity, low specific gravity and high API gravity due to the presence of a high proportion of light hydrocarbon fractions. It generally has a low wax content...

; actual values can range from 0.816 to 0.893, so the amounts shown below are inexact. They are also estimates, because the actual volume of an oil spill is difficult to measure exactly.

Ongoing

Spill / vessel	Location	Dates	Estimated flow rate (tonnes/day)	Full cargo (tonnes)	Spilled (min tonnes)	Spilled (max tonnes)	Link	Notes
	, Tauranga Tauranga Tauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty region, in the North Island of New Zealand.It was settled by Europeans in the early 19th century and was constituted as a city in 1963... , Bay of Plenty Bay of Plenty The Bay of Plenty , often abbreviated to BOP, is a region in the North Island of New Zealand situated around the body of water of the same name...	to present	n/a	1,700	150	350
Platform 23051	, Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...	to present ( days)	0.03 – 0.05	n/a	70	109		Leaks resulting from Hurricane Ivan Hurricane Ivan Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, Cape Verde-type hurricane that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The cyclone was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane and the fourth major hurricane of the active 2004 Atlantic hurricane season... have been largely contained, but not entirely. Ocean Saratoga Diamond Offshore Drilling Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. is a deepwater drilling contractor which provides drilling services to the oil and gas industry. The company's headquarters are located in Houston, Texas, but they have offices in Metairie, Louisiana, Africa, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Scotland, Singapore, Norway... is periodically onsite servicing and attempting to seal the leaks. Being monitored by the United States Department of the Interior United States Department of the Interior The United States Department of the Interior is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native...

Note: The "flow rate" column applies to leaking wells, pipelines, etc., and is often used to estimate the total amount of oil spilled. The "full cargo" column applies to vessels, vehicles, etc., and represents the maximum amount of oil that could be spilled. The "spilled" columns indicate the total amount of oil that has been released to the environment so far, and should be based on official estimates found in referenced sources whenever possible. When official estimates vary, use the "min" and "max" columns to show the range of estimates.

Occurred

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Spill / Vessel || Location || Dates ||Min Tonnage||Max Tonnage || Link(s)
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| Chevron/Transocean Campos oil spill
| , Campos Basin

Campos Basin

Campos Basin is a petroleum rich area located offshore of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has a total area of 100,000 square kilometres, with 40 fields discovered and operated by Petrobras....

North Sea

In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...

| -
| align=Center| 216
| align=Center| not known
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| Yellowstone River pipeline spill

2011 Yellowstone River oil spill

The July 2011 Yellowstone River oil spill was an oil spill from an ExxonMobil pipeline running from Silver Tip to Billings, Montana, which ruptured about 10 miles west of Billings on July 1, 2011 at about 11:30 p.m...

| , Billings

Billings, Montana

Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, and is the principal city of the Billings Metropolitan Area, the largest metropolitan area in over...

, Montana

Montana

Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

, Yellowstone River

Yellowstone River

The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the western United States. Considered the principal tributary of the upper Missouri, the river and its tributaries drain a wide area stretching from the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity of the Yellowstone National...

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| align=Center| 105
| align=Center| 140
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| Bohai Bay oil spill
| , Bohai Bay

Bohai Bay

Bohai Bay is one of the three bays forming the Bohai Gulf, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea, in northeast China. It borders Hebei province and Tianjin Municipality...

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, Arabian Sea

Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by the Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui in northeastern Somalia and Kanyakumari in India...

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| align=Center| 40
| align=Center| 55

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| Fiume Santo power station
| , Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...

, Porto Torres

Porto Torres

Porto Torres is a comune and city in northern Sardinia, in the Province of Sassari.It is situated on the north coast about 25 km east of the Gorditanian promontory , and on the spacious bay of the Gulf of Asinara.-History:...

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| align=Center| 15
| align=Center| 15
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| Mumbai oil spill / MV MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia 3
| , Mumbai

Mumbai

, Arabian Sea

Arabian Sea

Barataria Bay

Barataria Bay, also Barrataria Bay, is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico that is located in southeastern Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, United States....

, Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...

| – August 1, 2010
| align=Center| 23
| align=Center| 45
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| Talmadge Creek oil spill

Talmadge Creek oil spill

The Enbridge or Talmadge Creek oil spill is a spill caused by a rupture in Enbridge Energy pipeline line 6B at 09:45 on 26 July 2010, in Calhoun County, Michigan, that leaked of oil sands crude into Talmadge Creek that flows into the Kalamazoo River. The US Environmental Protection Agency later...

| , Kalamazoo River

Kalamazoo River

The Kalamazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Michigan. The river is long from the junction of its North and South branches to its mouth at Lake Michigan, with a total length extending to when one includes the South Branch...

, Calhoun

Calhoun

-People with the surname Calhoun:Calhoun is a surname of Scottish origin. It is a variant of the surname Colquhoun.*Ann Marie Calhoun, American violinist*Craig Calhoun, American sociologist*Chad Calhoun, a pseudonym of Ron Goulart, writer...

, Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

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| align=Center| 2,800
| align=Center| 3,250
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| Xingang Port oil spill

Xingang Port oil spill

The Xingang Port oil spill is a spill that occurred in July 2010 caused by a rupture and subsequent explosion of two crude oil pipelines that run to an oil storage depot of the China National Petroleum Corporation in Xingang Harbour, Dalian, Liaoning, China. The 1,500 tonnes of oil spilled from the...

| , Yellow Sea

Yellow Sea

The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula. Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the water golden...

| – July 21, 2010
| align=Center| 1,500
| align=Center| 90,000
|

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| Jebel al-Zayt oil spill

Jebel al-Zayt oil spill

The Jebel al-Zayt oil spill was an oil spill in the Red Sea, considered to be the largest offshore spill in Egyptian history. The spill polluted around of coastline including tourist beach resorts...

| , Red Sea

Red Sea

The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...

Red Butte Creek oil spill

The Red Butte Creek oil spill is a spill caused by a rupture in a medium crude oil pipeline that runs to the Chevron Corporation oil refinery in Salt Lake City Utah. Several hours after a detection in the reduction in pressure in the line, the broken pipe was discovered gushing oil per minute into...

| , Salt Lake City, Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

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| align=Center| 400
| align=Center| 1,200
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| , Singapore Strait

Singapore Strait

The Singapore Strait is a 105-kilometer long, 16-kilometer wide strait between the Strait of Malacca in the west and the South China Sea in the east. Singapore is on the north of the channel and the Riau Islands are on the south...

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| align=Center| 2,000
| align=Center| 2,500
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| 2010 ExxonMobil oil spill
| , Niger Delta

Niger Delta

The Niger Delta, the delta of the Niger River in Nigeria, is a densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm oil...

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| align=Center| 3,246
| align=Center| 95,500
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| Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed unabated for three months in 2010, and continues to leak fresh oil. It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry...

| , Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

| – July 15, 2010
| align=Center| 492,000
This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spill
Oil spill
An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is mostly used to describe marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters...

s that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonne

Tonne

s of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons, or 7.33 barrels

Barrel (unit)

A barrel is one of several units of volume, with dry barrels, fluid barrels , oil barrel, etc...

, or 1165 liters. This calculation uses a median value of 0.858 for the specific gravity of light crude oil

Light crude oil

; actual values can range from 0.816 to 0.893, so the amounts shown below are inexact. They are also estimates, because the actual volume of an oil spill is difficult to measure exactly.

Ongoing

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Spill / vessel
! Location
! Dates
! Estimated flow rate (tonnes/day)
! Full cargo (tonnes)
! Spilled (min tonnes)
! Spilled (max tonnes)
! Link
! Notes
|-
| align=left|
| align=left|, Tauranga

Tauranga

Tauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty region, in the North Island of New Zealand.It was settled by Europeans in the early 19th century and was constituted as a city in 1963...

, Bay of Plenty

Bay of Plenty

The Bay of Plenty , often abbreviated to BOP, is a region in the North Island of New Zealand situated around the body of water of the same name...

| to present
| n/a
| 1,700
| 150
| 350
|
|
|-
| align=left|
Platform 23051
| align=left|, Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

| to present ( days)
| 0.03 – 0.05
| n/a
| 70
| 109
|
| align=left|Leaks resulting from Hurricane Ivan

Hurricane Ivan

Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, Cape Verde-type hurricane that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The cyclone was the ninth named storm, the sixth hurricane and the fourth major hurricane of the active 2004 Atlantic hurricane season...

have been largely contained, but not entirely. Ocean Saratoga

Diamond Offshore Drilling

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. is a deepwater drilling contractor which provides drilling services to the oil and gas industry. The company's headquarters are located in Houston, Texas, but they have offices in Metairie, Louisiana, Africa, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Scotland, Singapore, Norway...

is periodically onsite servicing and attempting to seal the leaks. Being monitored by the United States Department of the Interior

United States Department of the Interior

The United States Department of the Interior is the United States federal executive department of the U.S. government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land and natural resources, and the administration of programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native...

|}
Note: The "flow rate" column applies to leaking wells, pipelines, etc., and is often used to estimate the total amount of oil spilled. The "full cargo" column applies to vessels, vehicles, etc., and represents the maximum amount of oil that could be spilled. The "spilled" columns indicate the total amount of oil that has been released to the environment so far, and should be based on official estimates found in referenced sources whenever possible. When official estimates vary, use the "min" and "max" columns to show the range of estimates.

Occurred

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Spill / Vessel || Location || Dates ||Min Tonnage||Max Tonnage || Link(s)
|-

| Chevron/Transocean Campos oil spill
| , Campos Basin

Campos Basin

Campos Basin is a petroleum rich area located offshore of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has a total area of 100,000 square kilometres, with 40 fields discovered and operated by Petrobras....

North Sea

| -
| align=Center| 216
| align=Center| not known
|
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| Yellowstone River pipeline spill

2011 Yellowstone River oil spill

| , Billings

Billings, Montana

Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, and is the principal city of the Billings Metropolitan Area, the largest metropolitan area in over...

, Montana

Montana

, Yellowstone River

Yellowstone River

|
| align=Center| 105
| align=Center| 140
|
|-
| Bohai Bay oil spill
| , Bohai Bay

Bohai Bay

Bohai Bay is one of the three bays forming the Bohai Gulf, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea, in northeast China. It borders Hebei province and Tianjin Municipality...

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

Mumbai

, Arabian Sea

Arabian Sea

|
| align=Center| 40
| align=Center| 55

|
|-
| Fiume Santo power station
| , Sardinia

Sardinia

, Porto Torres

Porto Torres

|
| align=Center| 15
| align=Center| 15
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| Mumbai oil spill / MV MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia 3
| , Mumbai

Mumbai

, Arabian Sea

Arabian Sea

Barataria Bay

Barataria Bay, also Barrataria Bay, is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico that is located in southeastern Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, United States....

, Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

| – August 1, 2010
| align=Center| 23
| align=Center| 45
|
|-
| Talmadge Creek oil spill

Talmadge Creek oil spill

| , Kalamazoo River

Kalamazoo River

, Calhoun

Calhoun

, Michigan

Michigan

|
| align=Center| 2,800
| align=Center| 3,250
|
|-
| Xingang Port oil spill

Xingang Port oil spill

| , Yellow Sea

Yellow Sea

| – July 21, 2010
| align=Center| 1,500
| align=Center| 90,000
|

|-
| Jebel al-Zayt oil spill

Jebel al-Zayt oil spill

The Jebel al-Zayt oil spill was an oil spill in the Red Sea, considered to be the largest offshore spill in Egyptian history. The spill polluted around of coastline including tourist beach resorts...

| , Red Sea

Red Sea

Red Butte Creek oil spill

| , Salt Lake City, Utah

Utah

Alaska

|
| align=Center| 400
| align=Center| 1,200
|
|-
|
| , Singapore Strait

Singapore Strait

|
| align=Center| 2,000
| align=Center| 2,500
|
|-
| 2010 ExxonMobil oil spill
| , Niger Delta

Niger Delta

The Niger Delta, the delta of the Niger River in Nigeria, is a densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm oil...

|
| align=Center| 3,246
| align=Center| 95,500
|
|-
| Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

| , Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

Tonne

s of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons, or 7.33 barrels

Barrel (unit)

A barrel is one of several units of volume, with dry barrels, fluid barrels , oil barrel, etc...

, or 1165 liters. This calculation uses a median value of 0.858 for the specific gravity of light crude oil

Light crude oil

; actual values can range from 0.816 to 0.893, so the amounts shown below are inexact. They are also estimates, because the actual volume of an oil spill is difficult to measure exactly.

Ongoing

Tauranga

Tauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty region, in the North Island of New Zealand.It was settled by Europeans in the early 19th century and was constituted as a city in 1963...

, Bay of Plenty

Bay of Plenty

The Bay of Plenty , often abbreviated to BOP, is a region in the North Island of New Zealand situated around the body of water of the same name...

| to present
| n/a
| 1,700
| 150
| 350
|
|
|-
| align=left|
Platform 23051
| align=left|, Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

| to present ( days)
| 0.03 – 0.05
| n/a
| 70
| 109
|
| align=left|Leaks resulting from Hurricane Ivan

Hurricane Ivan

have been largely contained, but not entirely. Ocean Saratoga

Diamond Offshore Drilling

is periodically onsite servicing and attempting to seal the leaks. Being monitored by the United States Department of the Interior

United States Department of the Interior

Occurred

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Spill / Vessel || Location || Dates ||Min Tonnage||Max Tonnage || Link(s)
|-

| Chevron/Transocean Campos oil spill
| , Campos Basin

Campos Basin

Campos Basin is a petroleum rich area located offshore of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has a total area of 100,000 square kilometres, with 40 fields discovered and operated by Petrobras....

North Sea

| -
| align=Center| 216
| align=Center| not known
|
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| Yellowstone River pipeline spill

2011 Yellowstone River oil spill

| , Billings

Billings, Montana

Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, and is the principal city of the Billings Metropolitan Area, the largest metropolitan area in over...

, Montana

Montana

, Yellowstone River

Yellowstone River

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| align=Center| 105
| align=Center| 140
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| Bohai Bay oil spill
| , Bohai Bay

Bohai Bay

Bohai Bay is one of the three bays forming the Bohai Gulf, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea, in northeast China. It borders Hebei province and Tianjin Municipality...

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

Mumbai

, Arabian Sea

Arabian Sea

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| align=Center| 40
| align=Center| 55

|
|-
| Fiume Santo power station
| , Sardinia

Sardinia

, Porto Torres

Porto Torres

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| align=Center| 15
| align=Center| 15
|
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| Mumbai oil spill / MV MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia 3
| , Mumbai

Mumbai

, Arabian Sea

Arabian Sea

Barataria Bay

Barataria Bay, also Barrataria Bay, is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico that is located in southeastern Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, United States....

, Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

| – August 1, 2010
| align=Center| 23
| align=Center| 45
|
|-
| Talmadge Creek oil spill

Talmadge Creek oil spill

| , Kalamazoo River

Kalamazoo River

, Calhoun

Calhoun

, Michigan

Michigan

|
| align=Center| 2,800
| align=Center| 3,250
|
|-
| Xingang Port oil spill

Xingang Port oil spill

| , Yellow Sea

Yellow Sea

| – July 21, 2010
| align=Center| 1,500
| align=Center| 90,000
|

|-
| Jebel al-Zayt oil spill

Jebel al-Zayt oil spill

The Jebel al-Zayt oil spill was an oil spill in the Red Sea, considered to be the largest offshore spill in Egyptian history. The spill polluted around of coastline including tourist beach resorts...

| , Red Sea

Red Sea

Red Butte Creek oil spill

| , Salt Lake City, Utah

Utah

Alaska

|
| align=Center| 400
| align=Center| 1,200
|
|-
|
| , Singapore Strait

Singapore Strait

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| align=Center| 2,000
| align=Center| 2,500
|
|-
| 2010 ExxonMobil oil spill
| , Niger Delta

Niger Delta

The Niger Delta, the delta of the Niger River in Nigeria, is a densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm oil...

|
| align=Center| 3,246
| align=Center| 95,500
|
|-
| Deepwater Horizon

Deepwater Horizon oil spill

| , Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

| – July 15, 2010
| align=Center| 492,000
| align=Center| 627,000
|
|-
| 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill

2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill

The 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill occurred on 3 April 2010, when the Chinese bulk coal carrier, ran aground east of Rockhampton in Central Queensland, Australia. The vessel is owned by Shenzhen Energy Transport Co. Ltd....

/
| Great Keppel Island

Great Keppel Island

Great Keppel Island lies 15 kilometres from the coast off Yeppoon, Central Queensland, Australia. The island is the largest of the eighteen islands in the Keppel Group, and covers an area of more than 14.5 square kilometres...

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| align=Center| 3
| align=Center| 4
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| 2010 Port Arthur oil spill

2010 Port Arthur oil spill

The 2010 Port Arthur oil spill was the result of a collision between two vessels in the Sabine-Neches Waterway at Port Arthur, Texas on January 23, 2010...

| , Port Arthur

Port Arthur, Texas

-Demographics:As of the 2000 census, there were 57,755 people, 21,839 households, and 14,675 families residing in the city. The population density was 696.5 people per square mile . There were 24,713 housing units at an average density of 298.0 per square mile...

, Texas
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| align=Center| 1,500
| align=Center| 1,500
|
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| Yellow River oil spill

Yellow River oil spill

The Yellow River oil spill was an oil spill in the Yellow River in Shaanxi, China which took place due to the rupturing of a segment of Lanzhou-Zhengzhou oil pipeline on December 30, 2009...

| , Chishui River (Shaanxi)

Chishui River (Shaanxi)

The Chishui River is a river in China. It is a tributary of the Wei River. It is located near the town of Chishui , in Hua County, under the jurisdiction of Weinan, in the northwestern province of Shaanxi....

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| align=Center| 130
| align=Center| 130
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| Montara oil spill

Montara oil spill

The Montara oil spill was an oil and gas leak and subsequent slick that took place in the Montara oil field in the Timor Sea, off the northern coast of Western Australia. It is considered one of Australia's worst oil disasters...

| , Timor Sea

Timor Sea

The Timor Sea is a relatively shallow sea bounded to the north by the island of Timor, to the east by the Arafura Sea, to the south by Australia and to the west by the Indian Ocean....

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| align=Center| 4,000
| align=Center| 30,000
|
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| Full City oil spill
| , Rognsfjorden near Såstein south of Langesund

Langesund

is the administrative centre of the municipality of Bamble, Norway.The town of Langesund was established as a municipality January 1, 1838...

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| align=Center| 200
| align=Center| 200
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| 2009 Lüderitz oil spill

2009 Lüderitz oil spill

The 2009 Lüderitz oil spill began in April 2009 off the coast of Lüderitz, Namibia. It affected 156 African Penguins, with many more possibly threatened. The oil spill is in the area where the Meob Bay fishing trawler sank in June 2002, killing 19 seamen. The boat sank after a rope got caught in...

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

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| align=Center| 230
| align=Center| 260
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| West Cork oil spill

West Cork oil spill

The West Cork oil spill was an oil spill off the southern coast of Ireland. The spill was first identified by the European Maritime Safety Agency's CleanSeaNet satellite monitoring system on 14 February 2009. An Irish Air Corps marine patrol aircraft first spotted the slick around the which was...

Louisiana

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

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| align=Center| 8,800
| align=Center| 8,800
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| 2007 Statfjord oil spill

Statfjord oil field

The Statfjord oil field is an enormous oil and gas field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea operated by Statoil.It is a trans-median field crossing the Norwegian and UK North Sea Boundary with approximately 15% being in the UK Continental Shelf waters. At peak production it produced over of...

| , Norwegian Sea

Norwegian Sea

The Norwegian Sea is a marginal sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Norway. It is located between the North Sea and the Greenland Sea and adjoins the North Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast. In the southwest, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a...

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| align=Center| 4,000
| align=Center| 4,000
|
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| 2007 Korea oil spill

2007 Korea oil spill

The MT Hebei Spirit oil spill was a major oil spill in South Korea that began on the morning of 7 December 2007 local time, with ongoing environmental and economic effects. Government officials called it South Korea's worst oil spill ever, surpassing a spill that took place in 1995...

| , Yellow Sea

Yellow Sea

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| align=Center| 10,800
| align=Center| 10,800
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| Kerch Strait oil spill
|
, Strait of Kerch

Strait of Kerch

The Kerch Strait connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula in the west from the Taman Peninsula in the east. The strait is to wide and up to deep....

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| COSCO Busan oil spill

Cosco Busan oil spill

The COSCO Busan oil spill occurred at 08:30 UTC-8 on 7 November 2007 between San Francisco and Oakland, California, in which of IFO-380 heavy fuel oil, sometimes referred to as "bunker fuel", spilled into San Francisco Bay after the container ship M/V COSCO Busan operated by, Fleet Management...

| , San Francisco, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

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Kab 101
Kab 101 is a Sea Pony-type minimum-facilities light-production oil platform operated by Mexican state-owned oil company PEMEX, and installed about off the coast of Tabasco, near the port of Dos Bocas, in 1994. The platform was designed by British engineering firm SLP Engineering Limited. The...

| , Bay of Campeche

Bay of Campeche

The Bay of Campeche is the southern bight of the Gulf of Mexico. It is surrounded on three sides by the Mexican states of Campeche, Tabasco and Veracruz. It was named by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba and Antonio de Alaminos during their expedition in 1517...

| – December 17, 2007
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| Guimaras oil spill

Guimaras oil spill

The Guimaras oil spill is a massive oil spill at the Guimaras Strait, the Philippines that started on August 11, 2006. It is the worst oil spill ever in the Philippines.-Background:...

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| Jiyeh power station oil spill

Jiyeh power station oil spill

The Jiyeh Power Station oil spill is an environmental disaster caused by the release of heavy fuel oil into the eastern Mediterranean after storage tanks at the thermal power station in Jiyeh, Lebanon, south of Beirut, were bombed by the Israeli Air force on July 14 and July 15, 2006 during the...

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| Citgo

Citgo

CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a United States-incorporated, Venezuela-owned refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de...

refinery oil spill
| , Lake Charles

Lake Charles, Louisiana

Lake Charles is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Located in Calcasieu Parish, a major cultural, industrial, and educational center in the southwest region of the state, and one of the most important in...

, Louisiana

Louisiana

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| Prudhoe Bay oil spill

Prudhoe Bay oil spill

The Prudhoe Bay oil spill was an oil spill that was discovered on March 2, 2006 at a pipeline owned by BP Exploration, Alaska in western Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Initial estimates said that up to were spilled over , making it the largest oil spill on Alaska's north slope to date...

| , Alaska North Slope

Alaska North Slope

The Alaska North Slope is the region of the U.S. state of Alaska located on the northern slope of the Brooks Range along the coast of two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Chukchi Sea being on the western side of Point Barrow, and the Beaufort Sea on the eastern.The region contains the...

, Alaska

Alaska

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| , Cox Bay, Louisiana

Louisiana

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| Shell (Hurricane Katrina)
| , Pilottown

Pilottown, Louisiana

Pilottown is a small community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.It serves as a base for river pilots to guide ships across the bar and up and down the Mississippi River....

Empire, Louisiana

Empire is a census-designated place in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,211 at the 2000 census.-Hurricane Katrina:...

Meraux, Louisiana

Meraux is a census-designated place in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, in the United States. The population was 10,192 at the 2000 census...

and Chalmette

Chalmette, Louisiana

Chalmette is a census-designated place in and the parish seat of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 32,069 at the 2000 census. It is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metropolitan Statistical Area...

Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana

Pointe à la Hache is an unincorporated village and place in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States.Located on the east bank of the Mississippi River, the village has been the seat for Plaquemines Parish since the formation of the parish....

Port Fourchon, Louisiana

Port Fourchon is Louisiana’s southernmost port, located on the southern tip of Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, on the Gulf of Mexico. It is a sea port, with significant petroleum industry traffic from offshore Gulf oil platforms and drilling rigs as well as the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port pipeline...

Venice, Louisiana

Venice is an unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is 130 km south of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River at . It is the last community down the Mississippi accessible by automobile, and is the southern terminus of the Great River Road...

Louisiana

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Louisiana

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Unalaska Island

Unalaska is an island in the Fox Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. state of Alaska, at . The island has a land area of . The city of Unalaska, Alaska, covers part of the island and all of neighboring Amaknak Island where the Port of Dutch Harbor is located...

, Alaska

Alaska

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| , Delaware River

Delaware River

The Delaware River is a major river on the Atlantic coast of the United States.A Dutch expedition led by Henry Hudson in 1609 first mapped the river. The river was christened the South River in the New Netherland colony that followed, in contrast to the North River, as the Hudson River was then...

, Paulsboro, New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

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Hurricane Ivan

)
| , Louisiana

Louisiana

| – September 19, 2004
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| MP-69 Nakika 18" & MP-151 Nakika 18" pipeline (Hurricane Ivan

Hurricane Ivan

)
| , Louisiana

Louisiana

| – October 6, 2004
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| Chevron-Texaco tank collapse (Hurricane Ivan

Hurricane Ivan

)
| , Louisiana

Louisiana

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

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| Bouchard No. 120

Bouchard No. 120

On Sunday April 27, 2003, the Tank Barge Bouchard No. 120 struck rocks south of Westport, MA. This resulted in a puncture of the barge's hull about twelve feet in length. As a result, the cargo of the barge, number 6 fuel oil, spilled into the waters of Buzzards Bay, MA. While the spill was much...

| , Buzzards Bay

Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

Buzzards Bay is a census-designated place in the town of Bourne in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. The population was 3,549 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Buzzards Bay is located at...

, Bourne

Bourne, Massachusetts

Bourne is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 18,721 at the 2000 census.For geographic and demographic information on specific parts of the town of Bourne, please see the articles on Bourne , Buzzards Bay, Monument Beach, Pocasset, Sagamore, and Sagamore...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

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| Prestige oil spill

Prestige oil spill

The Prestige oil spill was an oil spill off the coast of Galicia caused by the sinking of an oil tanker in 2002. The spill polluted thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish, French and Portuguese coast, as well as causing great harm to the local fishing...

| , Galicia
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| Limburg (bomb

Bomb

A bomb is any of a range of explosive weapons that only rely on the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy...

ing)
| , Gulf of Aden

Gulf of Aden

The Gulf of Aden is located in the Arabian Sea between Yemen, on the south coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and Somalia in the Horn of Africa. In the northwest, it connects with the Red Sea through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, which is about 20 miles wide....

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| Manguinhos refinery
| , Guanabara Bay

Guanabara Bay

Guanabara Bay is an oceanic bay located in southeastern Brazil in the state of Rio de Janeiro. On its western shore lies the city of Rio de Janeiro, and on its eastern shore the cities of Niterói and São Gonçalo. Four other municipalities surround the bay's shores...

, Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

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| , Alaska

Alaska

Roncador Oil Field

Roncador oil field is a large oil and gas field located in the Campos Basin, off the coast of Brazil, northeast from Rio de Janeiro. It covers an 111 km2 area and reaches depths between --History:...

, Campos Basin

Campos Basin

Campos Basin is a petroleum rich area located offshore of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has a total area of 100,000 square kilometres, with 40 fields discovered and operated by Petrobras....

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| Amorgos oil spill
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| Jessica

Jessica (tanker)

The Jessica was an oil tanker that was involved in an oil spill in the Galápagos Islands, a chain of islands 972 km west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part. The ship was registered in Ecuador and owned by Acotramar...

| , Galapagos Islands

Galápagos Islands

The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part.The Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a...

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| , Chetwynd

Chetwynd, British Columbia

The District of Chetwynd is a town located on the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Situated on an ancient floodplain, it is the first town eastbound travellers encounter after emerging from the Rockies along Highway 97 and acts as the gateway to the Peace...

, British Columbia
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| Project Deep Spill

Project Deep Spill

Project Deep Spill was the first intentional deepwater oil spill, in order to study how crude oil behaved in-depth. A Joint Industry Project comprising 23 oil companies and the Minerals Management Service performed a sea trial in late June 2000 in the Helland Hansen region of the Norwegian Sea...

| , Helland Hansen ridge

Norwegian Sea

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| , Cape Town

Cape Town

Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

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| Petrobras

Petrobras

Petróleo Brasileiro or Petrobras is a semi-public Brazilian multinational energy corporation headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the largest company in Latin America by market capitalization and revenue, and the largest company headquartered in the Southern Hemisphere by market...

pipeline

Pipeline transport

Pipeline transport is the transportation of goods through a pipe. Most commonly, liquids and gases are sent, but pneumatic tubes that transport solid capsules using compressed air are also used....

| , Guanabara Bay

Guanabara Bay

, Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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| Erika

Erika (tanker)

Erika was the name of a tanker built in 1975 and last chartered by Total-Fina-Elf. She sank off the coast of France in 1999, causing a major environmental disaster.- Background :Erika was one of eight sister ships built in Japan...

| , Bay of Biscay

Bay of Biscay

The Bay of Biscay is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain west to Cape Ortegal, and is named in English after the province of Biscay, in the Spanish...

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| MV New Carissa

New Carissa

The M/V New Carissa was a freighter that ran aground on a beach near Coos Bay, Oregon, United States, during a storm in February 1999, and subsequently broke apart. An attempt to tow the bow section of the ship out to sea failed when the tow line broke, and the bow was grounded again. Eventually,...

| , Coos Bay

Coos Bay

Coos Bay is an S-shaped inlet where the Coos River enters the Pacific Ocean, approximately 10 miles long and two miles wide, on the Pacific Ocean coast of southwestern Oregon in the United States. The estuary is situated south of the Salmon River. The city of Coos Bay, once named Marshfield, was...

, Oregon

Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

| – March 9, 1999
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| , Sea of Japan

Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, between the Asian mainland, the Japanese archipelago and Sakhalin. It is bordered by Japan, North Korea, Russia and South Korea. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it has almost no tides due to its nearly complete enclosure from the Pacific...

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| Julie N.
Julie N.
The Julie N. is a Liberian Tanker that was involved in an oil spill occurring on the Fore River on September 27, 1996, in Portland, Maine. The 560 ft ship was carrying over 200,000 barrels of heating oil and was headed towards a docking station in South Portland to unload its...

| , Portland

Portland, Maine

Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...

, Maine
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| Sea Empress
Sea Empress
The MV Sea Empress was a single-hull oil tanker that ran aground near the southwest coast of Wales in February 1996. The ensuing oil spill affected a considerable area of nearby coastline.Pembrokeshire was suffering for over a year after the incident...

| , Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire is a county in the south west of Wales. It borders Carmarthenshire to the east and Ceredigion to the north east. The county town is Haverfordwest where Pembrokeshire County Council is headquartered....

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| , Rhode Island

Rhode Island

The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...

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| Seki oil spill
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| Morris J. Berman oil spill

Morris J. Berman oil spill

The barge Morris J. Berman grounded off Punta Escambron, San Juan, Puerto Rico on January 7, 1994.The barge spilled approximately 800,000 gallons of #6 oil on the reef.-Response:...

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| Aegean Sea

Aegean Sea (oil spill)

On December 3, 1992, the double-bottom Greek-flagged tanker Aegean Sea, en route to Repsol refinery in A Coruña, Spain, suffered an accident off the Galician coast. It had successfully passed all required tests and revisions....

| , A Coruña

A Coruña

A Coruña or La Coruña is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second-largest city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country...

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| Katina P
Katina P
Katina P was a Greek oil tanker carrying 72 000 tonnes of oil which sank off the Mozambique coast on 26 April 1992.On 17 April 1992, the master of the Greek-owned, Maltese-flagged vessel Katina P deliberately ran the ship aground 40 km north of Maputo in Mozambique and then abandoned ship...

| , Maputo

Maputo

Maputo, also known as Lourenço Marques, is the capital and largest city of Mozambique. It is known as the City of Acacias in reference to acacia trees commonly found along its avenues and the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It was famous for the inscription "This is Portugal" on the walkway of its...

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| , Indian ocean, off the coast of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

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| , 700 nmi (1,296.4 km) offshore
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| , Mediterranean Sea

Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...

near Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

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| Gulf War oil spill

Gulf War oil spill

The Gulf War oil spill was one of the largest oil spills in history, resulting from the Gulf War in 1991. The apparent strategic goal was to foil a potential landing by US Marines. It also made commandeering oil reserves difficult for US forces....

| , Persian Gulf

Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf, in Southwest Asia, is an extension of the Indian Ocean located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.The Persian Gulf was the focus of the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which each side attacked the other's oil tankers...

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| Mega Borg
| , Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

, 57 mi (91.7 km) SE of Galveston, Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

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| American Trader
| , Bolsa Chica State Beach

Bolsa Chica State Beach

Bolsa Chica State Beach is a beach in the state park system of California, USA. It is located in the Huntington Beach community of Sunset Beach in Orange County....

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

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| , 350 nmi (648.2 km) off Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria commonly known as Las Palmas is the political capital, jointly with Santa Cruz, the most populous city in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands and the ninth largest city in Spain, with a population of 383,308 in 2010. Nearly half of the people of the island...

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| , Delaware River

Delaware River

, Marcus Hook

Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania

Marcus Hook is a borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population peaked in the 1920s with 5,324 inhabitants. 2,314 inhabitants were counted at the recent 2000 census. Marcus Hook's current mayor is James Schiliro. The borough calls itself "The Cornerstone of Pennsylvania"....

, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

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| Exxon Valdez

Exxon Valdez oil spill

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled of crude oil. It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused...

| , Prince William Sound

Prince William Sound

Prince William Sound is a sound off the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula. Its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System...

, Alaska

Alaska

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| Odyssey

Odyssey (tanker)

Odyssey, which previously went by the name Oriental Phoenix, was an oil tanker in operation from 1971 to November 10, 1988, when an explosion caused it to sink in the North Atlantic off the coast of Canada. The resulting spill remains one of the largest oil spills in world history...

| , 700 nmi (1,296.4 km) off Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

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| , Floreffe

Floreffe

Floreffe is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Namur. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 7,405 inhabitants. The total area is 38.89 km², giving a population density of 190 inhabitants per km²....

, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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| , Gulf of Iran, Kharg Island

Kharg Island

Kharg Island is a continental island in the Persian Gulf belonging to Iran. The island is located off the coast of Iran and northwest of the Strait of Hormuz. Administered by the adjacent coastal Bushehr Province, Kharg Island provides a sea port for the export of oil and extends Iranian...

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| , Delaware River

Delaware River

, Marcus Hook

Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania

, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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| , Columbia River

Columbia River

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, flows northwest and then south into the U.S. state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state...

, Longview, Washington

Longview, Washington

Longview is a city in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States. It is the principal city of the "Longview, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area", which encompasses all of Cowlitz County. Longview's population was 36,648 at the time of the 2010 census and is the largest city in Cowlitz County...

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| , Saldanha Bay

Saldanha Bay

Saldanha Bay is a natural harbour on the south-western coast of South Africa, north west of Cape Town. The town that developed on the northern shore of the bay, also called Saldanha, was incorporated with five other towns into the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality in 2000. The current population of...

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| Nowruz Field Platform

Nowruz (oil field)

The Nowruz oil field, in the Persian Gulf, Iran, was the site of several 1983 oil spills.One spill was initially caused by a tanker hitting a platform. In March, 1983, the platform was attacked by Iraqi helicopters and the spill caught fire. The Iran–Iraq War prevented technicians from capping the...

| , Persian Gulf

Persian Gulf

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| , Brittany

Brittany

Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

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| , Pylos

Pylos

Pylos , historically known under its Italian name Navarino, is a town and a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pylos-Nestoras, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. It was the capital of the former...

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| Burmah Agate
Burmah Agate
The M/T Burmah Agate was an oil tanker that was involved in an oil spill near Galveston, Texas in 1979.On the morning of November 1, 1979, the Burmah Agate, inbound to Galveston Bay with a full load of fuel, collided with the outbound freighter Mimosa just outside the entrance to the Galveston Bay...

| , Galveston Bay

Galveston Bay

Galveston Bay is a large estuary located along the upper coast of Texas in the United States. It is connected to the Gulf of Mexico and is surrounded by sub-tropic marshes and prairies on the mainland. The water in the Bay is a complex mixture of sea water and fresh water which supports a wide...

, Texas

Texas

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| Atlantic Empress
Atlantic Empress
The Atlantic Empress was a Greek oil tanker that was involved in two large oil spills. The spills together are the fifth largest oil spill on record and the largest ship-based spill....

/ Aegean Captain
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| align=Center| 287,000
| align=Center| 287,000
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| Ixtoc I oil spill
| , Bay of Campeche

Bay of Campeche

, Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico

| – March 23, 1980
| align=Center| 454,000
| align=Center| 480,000
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| Betelgeuse

Betelgeuse incident

The Betelgeuse incident, also known as the Betelgeuse or Whiddy Island disaster, occurred on 8 January 1979, at around 1:00 a.m., when the oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded in West Cork, Ireland, at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal, due to the failure of the ship's structure...

| , Bantry Bay

Bantry Bay

Bantry Bay is a bay located in County Cork, southwest Ireland. The bay runs approximately from northeast to southwest into the Atlantic Ocean. It is approximately 3-to-4 km wide at the head and wide at the entrance....

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| align=Center| 64,000
| align=Center| 64,000
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| Amoco Cadiz
Amoco Cadiz
Amoco Cadiz was a very large crude carrier , owned by Amoco, that ran aground on Portsall Rocks, from the coast of Brittany, France, on 16 March 1978, and ultimately split in three and sank, all together resulting in the largest oil spill of its kind in history to that date.-Oil spill:Amoco Cadiz...

| , Brittany

Brittany

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| align=Center| 223,000
| align=Center| 227,000
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| Trans-Alaska Pipeline sabotage by explosives
| , Alaska
|
| align=Center| 2,162
| align=Center| 2,162
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| Venpet / Venoil collision

Venpet-Venoil Collision

The Venpet-Venoil collision was a maritime accident involving sister supertankers; the Liberian-registered Venoil and Venpet, in dense fog off the coast of South Africa on 16 December 1977...

| , Cape St. Francis

Cape St. Francis

Cape St. Francis is a town in South Africa, situated on a headland in the Eastern Cape Province. It is popular for its clean beaches and as a surfing location.The town is home to a Penguin Rescue and Rehabilitation Center as well as the Seal Point Lighthouse....

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| align=Center| 26,600
| align=Center| 30,500
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| Ekofisk oil field

Ekofisk oil field

Ekofisk is an oil field in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea about southwest of Stavanger. Discovered in 1969, it remains one of the most important oil fields in the North Sea. Production began in 1971 after the construction of a series of off-shore platforms by Phillips Petroleum Company...

| , North Sea

North Sea

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| align=Center| 27,600
| align=Center| 27,600
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| Hawaiian Patriot
| , 300 nmi (555.6 km) off Honolulu, Hawaii

Hawaii

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

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| align=Center| 95,000
| align=Center| 95,000
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| Borag
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Republic of China, Northern coast
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| align=Center| 34,000
| align=Center| 34,000
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| Argo Merchant
Argo Merchant
MV Argo Merchant was a Liberian-flagged oil tanker built by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Hamburg, Germany in 1953, most noted for running aground and subsequent sinking southeast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, causing one of the largest marine oil spills in history...

| , Nantucket Island, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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| align=Center| 25,000
| align=Center| 28,000
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| NEPCO 140 oil spill

NEPCO 140 Oil Spill

The NEPCO 140 Oil Spill took place in 1976 near Clayton, New York when the NEPCO 140 ran aground while traveling inland, spilling an estimated of oil into the Saint Lawrence River.-Oil spill:...

| , Saint Lawrence River

Saint Lawrence River

The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin...

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| align=Center| 1,000
| align=Center| 1,000
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| Urquiola
| , A Coruña

A Coruña

A Coruña or La Coruña is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second-largest city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country...

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| align=Center| 100,000
| align=Center| 100,000
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| Niger Delta
| , Niger Delta

Niger Delta

The Niger Delta, the delta of the Niger River in Nigeria, is a densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm oil...

| – 1996
| align=Center| 258,000
| align=Center| 328,000
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| Corinthos
| , Delaware River

Delaware River

, Marcus Hook

Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania

, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

|
| align=Center| 35,700
| align=Center| 35,700
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| Jakob Maersk
Jakob Maersk
The Jakob Maersk was a Danish oil tanker that struck a sand bank on January 29, 1975 while entering the port of Leixões, Portugal, causing a major oil spill. Built in 1966, the tanker was owned by Maerskline Navigation Company...

| , Oporto
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| align=Center| 88,000
| align=Center| 88,000
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|
| , Strait of Magellan

Strait of Magellan

The Strait of Magellan comprises a navigable sea route immediately south of mainland South America and north of Tierra del Fuego...

|
| align=Center| 50,000
| align=Center| 51,000
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| Sea Star

Sea Star (tanker)

Sea Star was a supertanker that spilled some 115,000 tons of crude oil into the Gulf of Oman on December 19, 1972, after colliding with the Brazilian tanker Horta Barbosa. After the collision both vessels caught fire and were abandoned by their crews...

| , Gulf of Oman

Gulf of Oman

The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman is a strait that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz, which then runs to the Persian Gulf. It is generally included as a branch of the Persian Gulf, not as an arm of the Arabian Sea. On the north coast is Pakistan and Iran...

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| align=Center| 115,000
| align=Center| 115,000
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| Oswego-Guardian / Texanita collision

Oswego-Guardian/Texanita collision

The Oswego-Guardian/Texanita collision was a maritime accident between two supertankers near Stilbaai, South Africa on 21 August 1972. The Texanita exploded and sank with the loss of 47 men, while a further life was lost on the Oswego Guardian...

| , Stilbaai

Stilbaai

Stilbaai, also known as the Bay of Sleeping Beauty, is a town along the southern coast of South Africa about four hours by car from Cape Town. It is part of the Hessequa Local Municipality in the Western Cape province...

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| align=Center| 10,000
| align=Center| 10,000
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| Arizona Standard / Oregon Standard collision
| , San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean...

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| align=Center| 2,700
| align=Center| 2,700
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| Othello
| , Trälhavet Bay
|
| align=Center| 50,000
| align=Center| 60,000
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| 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill

1969 Santa Barbara oil spill

The Santa Barbara oil spill occurred in January and February 1969 in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara in Southern California. It was the largest oil spill in United States waters at the time, and now ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills...

| , Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

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| align=Center| 10,000
| align=Center| 14,000
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| Torrey Canyon
Torrey Canyon
The Torrey Canyon was a supertanker capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil, which was shipwrecked off the western coast of Cornwall, England in March 1967 causing an environmental disaster...

| , Isles of Scilly

Isles of Scilly

The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. The islands have had a unitary authority council since 1890, and are separate from the Cornwall unitary authority, but some services are combined with Cornwall and the islands are still part...

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| align=Center| 80,000
| align=Center| 119,000
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| African Queen oil spill
| , Ocean City

Ocean City, Maryland

Ocean City, sometimes known as OC, or OCMD, is an Atlantic Ocean resort town in Worcester County, Maryland, United States. Ocean City is widely known in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States and is a frequent destination for vacationers in that area...

, Maryland

Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

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| align=Center| 21,000
| align=Center| 21,000
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| Avila Beach pipeline
| , Avila Beach

Avila Beach

Avila Beach , pronounced AH-vuh-luh or spanish pronunciation as AH-vee-lah, is a census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA and located about 160 miles northwest of Los Angeles, and about 200 miles south of San Francisco. The ZIP Code is 93424. The community is inside area...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

| 's – 1996
| align=Center| 1,300
| align=Center| 1,300
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| Guadalupe Oil Field
| , Guadalupe

Guadalupe, California

Guadalupe is a small city located in Santa Barbara County, California. According to the U.S. Census of 2010, the city has a population of 7,080. It was incorporated as a city on May 19, 1946...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

| 's – 1994
| align=Center| 29,000
| align=Center| 29,000
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| Greenpoint, Brooklyn oil spill

Greenpoint oil spill

The Greenpoint oil spill is one of the largest oil spills ever recorded in the United States. Located around Newtown Creek in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, between of oil and petroleum products have leaked into the soil from crude oil processing facilities over a period...

| , Newtown Creek

Newtown Creek

Newtown Creek is a estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, in New York City, New York, United States. It derives its name from New Town , which was the name for the Dutch and British settlement in what is now Elmhurst, Queens...

, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at the Bushwick inlet, on the southeast by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg, on the north by Newtown Creek and Long Island City, Queens at the...

, New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

| s – 1950s
| align=Center| 55,200
| align=Center| 97,400
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| / collision
| , San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

|
| align=Center| 8,870
| align=Center| 8,870
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| Lakeview Gusher

Lakeview Gusher

Lakeview Gusher Number One was an immense out-of-control pressurized oil well in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Kern County, California, resulting in what is the largest single oil spill in history, lasting 18 months and releasing of crude oil. In what was one of the largest oil reserves in...

| , Kern County

Kern County, California

Spreading across the southern end of the California Central Valley, Kern County is the fifth-largest county by population in California. Its economy is heavily linked to agriculture and to petroleum extraction, and there is a strong aviation and space presence. Politically, it has generally...

, California
| – September 10, 1911
| align=Center| 1,230,000
| align=Center| 1,230,000
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| Thomas W. Lawson
Thomas W. Lawson (ship)
The Thomas W. Lawson was a seven-masted, steel-hulled schooner originally planned for the Pacific trade, but then used primarily to haul coal and oil along the East Coast of the United States. Built in 1902, the ship holds the distinction of being the largest schooner and the largest pure sailing...

| , Isles of Scilly

Isles of Scilly

|
| align=Center| 7,400
| align=Center| 7,400
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External links

Tanker Incidents at Maritime Connector

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