The Deepwater Horizon is the worst accidental oil spill in human history. The Worst: The Persian Gulf War Spill The worst deliberate spill occurred in the Persian Gulf in 1991. The previous August ...

1. The Persian Gulf oil spill released 380 million to 520 million gallons of oil In January 1991, during the Gulf War, up to 520 million gallons of oil poured into the Persian Gulf as Iraqi troops ...

The worst was the oil spill into the Persian Gulf as a result of the 1991 Gulf War against Saddam Hussein's Iraq when Iraqi troops opened the Kuwaiti oil field valves which allowed as much as an ...

January 1991 - During the Gulf War, Iraqi forces intentionally release 252-336 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf ... The Atlantic Empress spills 42.7 million gallons of oil.

In 1991, Iraqi troops fleeing Kuwait opened the valves on the Sea Island oil rig in the Persian ... It was the mother of all spills, but the Persian Gulf has warm, salty water without much ...

Saudi Aramco said there was no such spill in 1993 ... Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered oil valves opened to the Persian Gulf in 1991 to thwart an expected landing of U.S. Marines, dumping ...

WASHINGTON — The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad ... misstated the amount of oil that was spilled in 1991 into the Persian Gulf by Iraqi forces in Kuwait. The agency now puts the ...

The Deepwater Horizon is the worst accidental oil spill in human history. The worst deliberate spill occurred in the Persian Gulf in 1991. The previous August, Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had ...