| Spill / Tanker | Location | Date | Tonnes of crude oil (thousands)[a] |
Barrels (thousands) |
US Gallons (thousands) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kuwaiti Oil Fires[dubious – discuss][b] |  Kuwait |
January 16, 1991 – November 6, 1991 | 136,000 | 1,000,000 |
42,000,000 |
|
| Kuwaiti Oil Lakes [c] | Kuwait |
January 1991 – November 1991 | 3,409–6,818 | 25,000–50,000 |
1,050,000–2,100,000 |
|
| Lakeview Gusher |  United States, Kern County, California |
March 14, 1910 – September 1911 | 1,200 | 9,000 |
378,000 |
|
| Gulf War oil spill [d] | Kuwait, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf |
January 19, 1991 – January 28, 1991 | 818–1,091 | 6,000–8,000 |
252,000–336,000 |
|
| Deepwater Horizon | United States, Gulf of Mexico |
April 20, 2010 – July 15, 2010 | 560–585 | 4,100–4,900 |
172,000–180,800 |
|
| Ixtoc I |  Mexico, Gulf of Mexico |
June 3, 1979 – March 23, 1980 | 454–480 | 3,329–3,520 |
139,818–147,840 |
|
| Atlantic Empress / Aegean Captain |  Trinidad and Tobago |
July 19, 1979 | 287 | 2,105 |
88,396 |
|
| Fergana Valley |  Uzbekistan |
March 2, 1992 | 285 | 2,090 |
87,780 |
|
| Nowruz Field Platform |  Iran, Persian Gulf |
February 4, 1983 | 260 | 1,907 |
80,080 |
|
| ABT Summer |  Angola, 700 nmi (1,300 km; 810 mi) offshore |
May 28, 1991 | 260 | 1,907 |
80,080 |
|
| Castillo de Bellver |  South Africa, Saldanha Bay |
August 6, 1983 | 252 | 1,848 |
77,616 |
|
| Amoco Cadiz |  France, Brittany |
March 16, 1978 | 223 | 1,635 |
68,684 |
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