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Incident Map. 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.
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Every year, the Office of Response and Restoration responds to over 150 oil and chemical spills in U.S. waters. Oil spills are more common than you might think, and they happen in many different ways. These spills can threaten life, property, and public natural resources.
The restoration projects associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill focused restoring natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico. These data provide information on locations, project status, and monitoring activities.
On this page, you can download the trajectory maps produced by NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) during the response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. These maps are provided in zipped folders of PDF files, grouped by the type of map produced.
Each year, there are thousands of oil and chemical spills in coastal waters around the nation. These spills range from small ship collisions to fuel transfer mishaps to massive spill events like the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
APRIL 8, 2024 — One of the key tools used in oil spill response, Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) maps and data, is now available on NOAA GeoPlatform, a cloud GIS application based on Esri’s ArcGIS Online.
This site has news, photos, and other information about selected oil spills (and other incidents) where NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) provided scientific support for the incident response.