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.

The BP spill, which began after the Deepwater ... at a terminal and dumped about 460 million gallons of oil in 1991 during the Persian Gulf war. As the Gulf gusher neared the record, Hurricane ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.