This map shows the locations of oil spills and other incidents for which NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) provided scientific support for the response. It also shows the locations of other major spills, but it does not show the location of every significant oil spill.

Some of the major oil spills (> 100,000 gallons of oil released) to occur in the Gulf of Mexico from 2000 to 2010 would include the 2005 Hurricane Katrina damages to facilities and tanks in Plaquemines Parish, Saint Bernard Parish, and Mississippi River (over 10,000,000 gallons); the 2006 CITGO Refinery waste oil tank release (42,000 - 1,470,000...

What happened to the 3.19 million barrels of oil? How has it affected Gulf ecosystems and wildlife? Trace the path of the oil in this interactive, based on scientific research from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. Click on the blue navigation buttons at top to …

Fortunately, you don't have to be a NOAA scientist to access, download, or even map it. We have been building tools to allow anyone to access this wealth of information on the Gulf of Mexico environment following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Interested citizens and organizations tracking the impact of the oil spill on the Gulf coastline could submit incident reports with text and images, and include links to news articles and video.Our Oil Spill Tracker tool (built on a crowd-sharing platform called Ushahidi) displayed the reports on an interactive map where anyone could view them ...

2011年3月8日 · This web map combines a few map services, including oil spill projections and stranded marine animals, to illustrate the impact of last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico over time. Web Map by user_community

2024年7月28日 · The Gulf of Mexico is the nations top source of oil and gas production. It supplies 97% of all oil and gas production in the U.S. Most oil spills are caused by accidents …

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and fire resulted in the most significant offshore oil spill in U.S. history when an estimated 3.2 million barrels of oil escaped into the Gulf of Mexico over 87 days from a damaged wellhead a mile below the surface. Eleven workers were killed, and ecosystems across the Gulf of Mexico suffered.

2010年5月1日 · This visualization is an interactive map tracking the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, that also includes a considerable amount of models about the oil cleanup system, videos about it, and information on the impact of the spil.

2010年9月19日 · The BP oil spill is the largest accidental release of oil into marine waters, according to flow estimates announced on Aug. 2 by a federal panel of scientists, called the Flow Rate Technical...