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Onshore oil spills & Ocean oil spills
Onshore oil spills & Ocean oil spills
Name, Place
Date
Cause
Tons
Ixtoc I oil well, S Gulf of Mexico
Jun 3, 1979
Blowout
600 000
Nowruz oil field, Persian Gulf
Feb 1983
Blowout
600 000
Persian Gulf
began Jan 23, 1991
Spillage by Iraq
445 000
Atlantic Empress & Aegean Captain , off Trinidad and Tobago
Jul 19, 1979
Collision
300 000
Castilo de Bellver , Off Cape Town, South Africa
Aug 6, 1983
Fire
250 000
Amoco Cadiz , near Portsall, France
Mar 16, 1978
Grounding
223 000
Torrey Canyon , Off Land's End, England
Mar 18, 1967
Grounding
119 000
Sea Star , Gulf of Oman
Dec 19, 1972
Collision
115 000
Urquiola , La Coruna, Spain
May 12, 1976
Grounding
100 000
Hawaiian Patriot , North Pacific
Feb 25, 1977
Fire
99 000
Braer , off Shetland Islands
Jan 5, 1993
Grounding
88 000
Aegean Sea, off N Spain
Dec 3, 1992
Unknown
75 000
Othello , Tralhavet Bay, Sweden
Mar 20, 1970
Collision
60 000
Sea Empress , off SW Wales
Feb 15, 1996
Grounding
60 000
World Glory , off South Africa
Jun 13, 1968
Hull failure
46 000
Exxon Valdez , Prince William Sound, Alaska
Mar 24, 1989
Grounding
35 000
Keo , off Massachusetts, USA
Nov 5, 1969
Hull failure
30 000
Storage tank, Sewaren, New Jersey, USA
Nov 4, 1969
Tank rupture
28 000
Ekofisk oil field, North Sea
Apr 22, 1977
Well blowout
28 000
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