for the last fifteen years, some 10,000 to 30,000 gallons of oil has leaked from a sunken oil rig owned by Taylor Energy into the Gulf of Mexico, about 12 miles south of the mouth of Mississippi River. The disaster began way back in September 2004, when the company’s oil platform, known as MC-20 Saratoga, was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan. Although the company contained some of the pollution caused by the loss of the platform, it did not stop all the leaks. Unless the oil spill is stopped, the sunken rig could carry on leaking for 100 years, becoming America’s worst environmental disaster. Even now, if you take the high end of the leak estimate, the site may have released an estimated 150 million gallons of oil over the past 15 years. This is silently creeping towards the estimated 200 million gallons spilled by BP during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
— source priceofoil.org | Jan 2, 2019