The Deepwater Horizon is the worst accidental oil spill in human history. The Worst: The Persian Gulf War Spill The worst deliberate spill occurred in the Persian Gulf in 1991. The previous August ...

A report from German news magazine Der Spiegel states that Iran's latest effort to disrupt key shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz may be to cause a massive oil spill. Code-named Murky ...

Take the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989 for example. Although the volume of that spill seems minor compared to others (11 million gallons versus the Persian Gulf oil spill's 380 to 520 gallons ...

black slicks in the Persian Gulf. It remained unclear where the spill originated, though Kuwait said it didn't look as if the spill came from its oil fields. Authorities offered no estimate for ...

The initial round of Israeli attacks sent oil prices 7 percent higher on Friday. Still, at about $74 a barrel, Brent crude ...

January 1991 – During the Gulf War, Iraqi forces intentionally release 252-336 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf ... The Atlantic Empress spills 42.7 million gallons of oil.

1. The Persian Gulf oil spill released 380 million to 520 million gallons of oil In January 1991, during the Gulf War, up to 520 million gallons of oil poured into the Persian Gulf as Iraqi troops ...

The Deepwater Horizon is the worst accidental oil spill in human history. The worst deliberate spill occurred in the Persian Gulf in 1991. The previous August, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had ...

Kuwait battled Sunday to control an oil spill off its southern coast that stained its beaches, threatened to damage power plants and water stations, and left long black slicks in the Persian Gulf.