Oil spills Amount Year
Amoco Cadiz, France 68.7 million gallons 1978
Ixtoc 1 Oil Well, Mexico 140 million gallons 1979
Atlantic Empress, West Indies 88.3 million gallons 1979
Castillo de Bellver, South Africa 78.5 million gallons 1983
Nowruz Oil Field, Persian Gulf 80 million gallons 1983
Odyssey Oil Spill, Canada 43 million hallons 1988
ABT Summer, Angola 80 million gallons 1991
Gulf war, Kuwait 240 to 336 million gallons 1991
Fergana Valley, Uzbekistan 87.7 million gallons 1992
Deepwater Horizon, Mexican Gulf 210 million gallons 2010
Table 1: Examples of some major oil spills (Source: www.telegraph.co.uk, [4]).