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Political Factoid
U.S. oil spills by "big oil"
| When |
Who |
Where |
How much |
| 2019 |
TransCanada |
North Dakota |
38,000 gallons
Keystone pipeline w/Bakken oil sands crude |
| 2017 |
TransCanada |
Amherst, SD |
800,000 gallon
Keystone pipeline w/mix of conventional crude and Bakken oil sands crude |
| 2016 |
TransCanada |
Hutchinson County, SD |
Keystone pipeline spill went undetected by all of TransCanada's fancy computers. (They shut the pumps down when a farmer reported oil 'ozing' out of the ground on his property.) |
| 2013 |
ExxonMobile |
Mayflower, AR |
Pipeline rupture spilling 100,000-plus gallons of highly corrosive and toxic tar sands oil |
| 2011 |
ExxonMobile |
Yellowstone River (MT) |
Slow response aggravated the problem |
| 2010 |
BP |
Gulf of Mexico, LA |
11 people dead
4.9 million barrels crude oil |
| 2010 |
Tanker Eagle Otome |
Port Arthur, TX |
462,000 gallons crude oil |
| 2008 |
Barge |
New Orleans, LA |
419,000 gallons |
| 2005 |
Collective (Katrina) |
New Orleans, LA |
7 million gallons |
| 2000 |
Taker Westchester |
Port Sulphur, LA |
567,000 gallons |
| 1993 |
M/V Selendang Ayu |
Tampa Bay, FL |
336,000 gallons |
| 1990 |
Tex Mega Borg |
Galveston, TX |
5.1 million gallons |
| 1989 |
Exxon |
Prince William Sound, AK |
260,000 to 750,000 barrels
of crude oil |
Louisiana has the worst history of major oil spills
(both size and frequency) of any state.
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