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Santa Barbara: 4.2 Million Gallon Spilled.
An oil well leaked 5 and 1/2 miles off the shoreline of South Barbara. Because of this big spill hundreds of tons of straws were scattered to soak the oil up, and weeks of mopping. -
Sansinena: 1.26 Million Gallons
An explosion in the Liberian Sansinena split in half in the Los Angeles Harbor. Booms were used to sop up the fuel, leaving two crewmen killed and 22 hurt. -
Amoco Cadiz: 68.7 Million Gallons
On the coastline of Brittany, France, the American supertanker onto ground during a storm and broke into two rocks. The spill covered 125 miles of shoreline. -
Ixtoc 1: 140 Million Gallons
An exploratory well blew out 50 miles off the Yucatan Peninsula, and was not resolved until March 1980. Currents and a fortunate wind swept away from the shore. -
Exxon Valdez: 10.8 Million Gallons
An American tanker fell unto the ground of Alaska's Prince William Sound among one of the richest animals in North America. The spill caused for a tax on oil companies to allow for a one billion dollar cleanup fund. -
Megaborg: 4.2 Million Gallons
On Norwegian oil tanker, an engine room caused a faging fire that caused a spill of light crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico leaking oil for as long as a week. The oil's light weight allowed winds, and waves tobreak apart the remaining spill, and push it out to sea. The oil never reached land, and the Gulf should no of the spill less than 20 days. -
Kuwait: 378 Million Gallons
Retreating Iraqis opened oil well and pipeline values and set a blaze 650 facilities. Half of the spill evaporated, Kuwait has no underground water sources. -
Deepwater Horizon: Ongoing
Explosion, two- day fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon, saking the drilling rig about 50 miles iff Louisana coast. The oil spill threatens ecosystems and economic systems for Lousiana up to Florida. Some experts say it could take 25,000 barrels a day to clean the leaking. -
Hurricane Katrina:7.98
Hurricane Katrina destroyed, damaged, or sank 50 of the 4,000 Gulf platforms, and washed gas stations underwater. Two damaged Bass Enterprises released 3.78 million galllons of oil.
