The oil spill was first reported April 26 as coming from the shut-in of a natural oil and gas well, known as Well #59, per the Coast Guard's first update in a series of press releases on the incident.

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Dump trucks line up to receive loads of dirt at the site of a cleanup operation May 16, 2025, following a blowout and spill at a Chevron oil facility near Galeton, Colorado.

While the long-term effects of Wednesday’s 5,000-gallon oil spill in the Baltimore Harbor are unknown, the city’s jewel has seen much worse. In August 1975, a Shell Oil barge leaked 135,000 ...

Cleanup efforts off Louisiana's Gulf Coast after an oil spill from a capped well that began April 26, 2025. U.S. Coast Guard ...

Sea turtles, meanwhile, saw huge declines due to the oil spill, with an estimated death toll of 4,900-7,600 large juvenile and adult sea turtles and 56,000-166,000 small juvenile sea turtles.

Although the amount of crude oil currently leaking out of the well is not yet known, a report from the U.S. Coast Guard's National Response Center earlier this week said "the amount discharged ...

KEY TAKEAWAYS: 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled in Gulf of Mexico, Nov 2023. Pipeline operator delayed shutdown nearly 13 hours despite warning signs. Underwater landslides and hurricane risks ...

In late April, 2010, global oil company BP was operating the oil-drilling rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico when a sudden surge of natural gases broke through a well cap, traveling up ...

The oil giant paid out $65 billion in cleanup costs, charges and penalties, but the scars still remain. The boats can be seen almost everywhere you look along Bayou la Loutre in St. Bernard Parish.

July 1970: Oil gushed for one hour from vents on an overflowing barge at Shell’s marine terminal at Wagner’s Point. The slick from the 67,000 gallon spill spread 15 miles.