Taylor oil spill a decade of lax enforcement, the United States Coast Guard issued an order requiring cleanup of the site, blockage of the leaks, or face fines of $40,000 a day. Taylor oil spill The 2004 Taylor oil spill is an ongoing spill located in the Gulf of Mexico, around off the coast of the U.S. state of Louisiana, which resulted from the destruction of a Taylor Energy oil platform during Hurricane Ivan. It was first brought to public attention when the contamination at the site was noticed in 2010 by those monitoring the nearby Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A later report
Guimaras oil spill Guimaras oil spill The Guimaras oil spill occurred in the Panay Gulf on August 11, 2006 when the oil tanker M/T "Solar 1" sank off the coast of Guimaras and Negros islands in the Philippines, causing what is considered as the worst oil spill in the country. The oil tanker M/T "Solar 1", carrying more than two million liters of bunker fuel, sank during a violent storm approximately off the southern coast of Guimaras at around midnight on August 11, 2006, causing some of oil to pour into the gulf, that traveled up through the Guimaras Strait and Iloilo Strait.