RESTORE Act Gulf Coast. On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig located in the Gulf of Mexico that was owned by Transocean and drilling for British Petroleum (BP) exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring 16. The rig burned for over a day before it sunk into the gulf on April 22, 2010. Following the explosion, the seafloor oil gusher flowed for 87 days, spilling an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the gulf. The spill resulted in widespread damage to the environment and ecology of the gulf coast states, as well as subsequent economic damage to their tourism
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.