1. January 1991 – During the Gulf War, Iraqi forces intentionally release 252-336 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf. 2. April 20, 2010 – An explosion occurs on board the BP-contracted ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The cap over a broken BP wellhead at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico is collecting more gushing crude day by day, but that's about the extent of the details known as authorities ...
In past disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, the federal government was in charge. But this time, BP - the oil giant that owned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig - has been designated the “responsible ...
The agency that monitors oil spills, Orbital EOS, has told The New York Times that the spill has covered more than 20 square ...
During the past four decades, the Southern Gulf Coast region—Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas—and the Gulf of Alaska have been directly impacted by large-scale oil spills of ...