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This map shows the locations of oil spills and other incidents for which NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) provided scientific support for the response. It also shows the locations of other major spills, but it does not show the location of every significant oil spill.
Oil spills are disasters that can have severe social, economic, and environmental impacts. They are the release of crude oil or refined petroleum products from tankers, rigs, wells, and offshore platforms. These spills are most common in marine environments but can also occur on land.
ITOPF maintains a database of oil spills from tank vessels, including combined carriers, FPSOs and barges. This contains information on accidental spillages of persistent and non-persistent hydrocarbon oil since 1970, except those resulting from acts of war.
View data, maps and resources related to the oil spills and the environmental emergencies they cause.
26 lip 2019 · Our map of the week features the location and volume (in tonnes) of the major oil spill incidents around the world up to 2010. Fortunately, the EU is leading the way in implementing rules for maritime safety and environmental protection 3 and the number of large oil spills globally has decreased dramatically 4 .
In this blog post, we’ll explore three new incident types added to SkyTruth Alerts – California Hazardous Materials Spills, Texas Oil and Gas Drilling Permits, and U.K. Oil and Gas Spills at Sea. October 4, 2022
7 lut 2024 · To prepare for possible oil spills from likely sources, oil spill modelers in NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) developed the Trajectory Analysis Planner (TAP), a software tool that provides a statistical view of where oil is likely to go in the event of a spill.
