This dataset contains records of spills of petroleum and other hazardous materials. Under State law and regulations, spills that could pollute the lands or waters of the state must be reported by the spiller (and, in some cases, by anyone who has knowledge of the spill). Examples of what may be included in a spill record includes: Administrative information (DEC region and unique seven-digit spill number). Program facility name. Spill date/time. Location. Spill source and cause. Material(s) and material type spilled. Quantity spilled and recovered. Units measured. Surface water bodies affected. Close date (cleanup activity finished and all paperwork completed).

The Historical Incidents database contains reports and images from oil and chemical spills that occurred between 1968 and 2002. The database includes reports on incidents to which NOAA responded, as well as some significant incidents in which NOAA was not involved. The database includes mainly U.S. incidents, but also significant incidents that occurred elsewhere. Generally, it includes inciden...

For full FGDC metadata record, please click here.These data have been created to represent areas that are environmentally and economically sensitive to oil and hazardous material spills. These data were originally created and assembled by the NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator for US Coast Guard District Seven in circa 1992-1993 in cooperation with local Area Committees in accordance with regulations set forth by the National Response Plan of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. They were provided to FWC-FWRI (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, (at that time known as the Florida Marine Research Institute) in the fall of 2003 as shapefiles (in geographic, decimal degrees, NAD 83 datum) and PDF maps for each of the US Coast Guard's Marine Safety Office Areas of Responsibility (Captain of the Port Zones for Miami (at that time consisting of both Sector Miami and Sector Key West), Tampa, Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, and Puerto Rico/US Virgin Islands). In the Fall & Winter of 2003, FWC-FWRI map-joined all of these shapefile data layers into a single contiguous layer, then converted the data into a Microsoft Access database for updating. In the Winter & Spring of 2003-2004 FWC-FWRI updated contact information and other attribute data to expand and improve upon the database so it could be used as a core business data layer for the Marine Resources Geographic Information System (MRGIS) library. Using various spatial coding functions, such as "assign data by location", additional attribute information has been added to the spatial database. Some examples are: The NOAA Nautical Chart the point can be found on, the USGS Quad the point can be found on, the Environmental Sensitivity Index map the point can be found on, the Latitude & Longitude in two data formats (Decimal Degrees and Degrees, Minutes, Seconds (with special characters for each unit), and others. These data were maintained as a part of the MRGIS Library and used with report generating software to update the information as needed for the creation of new printed "Oil Spill Sensitive Site" record documents for spill contingency planning and response purposes. In March of 2007, FWC-FWRI partnered with USCG Sector Mobile (part of USCG District 8) to catalog the oil spill sensitive areas within the Sector Mobile boundary, which includes the Panhandle of Florida, coastal Alabama, and coastal Mississippi. Work had previously been performed in a workshop environment to identify and catalog these areas, but NOT in a spatial manner. FWRI began this work by systematically geocoding the previously identified locations and entering the attribute information that was available into the same database structure that was in place for USCG District 7 (as mentioned above). The goal was to create a consistent dataset for the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico/US Virgin Islands. Once the basic geocoding was complete, a workshop was scheduled and key stakeholder agency representatives were invited to attend and review and augment this dataset for Sector Mobile. This workshop was at the end of March 2007 and working group members were recruited from the Area Committee and those key stakeholders recommended by the Area Committee. Through the years of 2008-2009, FWC-FWRI partnered with the US Coast Guard and Florida Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Emergency Response to conduct a series of workshops to review and update these detailed Geographic Response Plan (GRP) data and maps for revised Digital Area Contingency Plans. As with Sector Mobile, the GRP Revision workshop attendees were from or determined by the specific Area Committee of each Sector. Please see process steps for more information about the history of the data. The process of data entry is ongoing at FWRI as of July 2011. Data will be entered and undergo quality assurance/quality control processes before new data sheets and maps are re-produced for distribution and inclusion into Digital Area Contingency Plans and other GIS and/or map products. A versioned geodatabase has been created in SQL/SDE to track changes and manage data entry as well as digital QA/QC processes, such as consistency checks. A map service has also been created that is available to all the public and stakeholder community to view the latest version of this geodata. The map service displays data directly from the Enterprise versioned database. http://ocean.floridamarine.org/acpgrp/default.aspx These data are used in BOTH a spatial manner and in the traditional database manner. The spatial version is used to produce response maps and in a GIS (The Florida Marine Spill Analysis System and Digital Area Contingency Plans) to provide timely, accurate, and valuable information to responders and in the traditional database manner to populate reports used in producing area contingency plan maps and data sheets. Maps are produced (as PDF) with the sensitive area sites depicted on them, they are then "hyperlinked" in PDF to the data sheet that contains the attribute data for the site in a customized data report form. The report form contains information on key stakeholders for the area, wildlife resources to be protected, nearby staging areas, recommended protection strategies, the latitude/longitude of the site, and other response related information needed by first responders.

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Data Release provides data from samples and measurements completed at the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site near Bemidji, Minnesota (Site) since 1983. This is version 3.0 of this data release, and it now contains 11 data sets. The content of these data sets include inorganic and organic chemistry data from water, oil, and sediment samples, hydraulic conductivity data from well slug tests, sediment grain-size distribution data from core samples, and water- and oil-level data. Most of these data sets have been described in previously published peer-reviewed reports. This data release provides data sets that were not included with the original publications in a tabular, database-ready format. Each result value in the data sets is coded to describe the kind of sample collected, the material that was analyzed, the method of analysis, and the publication where the value was originally published. Some sample codes are taken from the U.S. Geological Survey's National Water Information System (NWIS, https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis) and the remaining codes were developed specifically for Site data. Data dictionaries containing code definitions are available at a companion data release titled "Sampling site information, well construction details, and data dictionaries for data sets associated with the National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Site near Bemidji, Minnesota", available at https://doi.org/10.5066/F7736PDR. The National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site is located where a high-pressure pipeline carrying crude oil burst in 1979 and spilled approximately 1.7 million liters (10,700 barrels) of crude oil into glacial outwash deposits. Since 1983, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, in collaboration with scientists from academic institutions, industry, and the regulatory community have conducted extensive investigations of multiphase flow and transport, volatilization, dissolution, geochemical interactions, microbial populations, and biodegradation with the goal of providing an improved understanding of the natural processes limiting the extent of hydrocarbon contamination. Long-term field studies at Bemidji have illustrated that the fate of hydrocarbons evolves with time, and a snap-shot study of a hydrocarbon plume may not provide information that is of relevance to the long-term behavior of the plume during natural attenuation. The research at the site has been supported primarily by the U.S. Geological Survey's Toxic Substances Hydrology Program.

There were more than ***** oil spills reported in and around waterways in the United States in 2022. This was almost **** times fewer spills than the total number reported in the year 2000. Vessels – such as tankships or tank barges – are the largest source of oil spills in the North American country.

The largest oil spill affecting U.S. waters since 1969 is the Deepwater Horizon spill. On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon drilling platform caused some 134 million gallons, or 3.2 million barrels, of oil to spill into the Gulf of Mexico until the well was eventually declared sealed on September 19, 2010. This event is also the largest marine oil spill in history.

A total of ** oil spills from tankships were recorded in and around waterways in the United States in 2022. In comparison, there were *** oil spills from tankships in the year 2000. The number of oil spills from all sources in the North American country has declined over the past two decades.

In response to the BP oil spill, EPA monitored water near the spill. While emergency response data collection has ended, results continue to be available on this site.

Emissions data from open air oil burns.

This dataset is associated with the following publication: Gullett, B., J. Aurell, A. Holder, B. Mitchell, D. Greenwell, M. Hays, R. Conmy, D. Tabor, W. Preston, I. George, J. Abrahamson, R. Vander Wal, and E. Holder. Characterization of Emissions and Residues from Simulations of the Deepwater Horizon Surface Oil Burns. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 117: 392-405, (2017).

This dataset analyzes waste from the the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon Rig Explosion Emergency Response, providing opportunity to query data sets by metadata criteria and find resulting raw datasets in CSV format.The data query tool allows users to download EPA's air, water and sediment sampling and monitoring data that has been collected in response to the BP oil spill. All sampling and monitoring data that has been collected to date is available for download as raw structured data.The query tools enables CSV file creation to be refined based on the following search criteria: date range (between April 28, 2010 and 9/29/2010); location by zip, city, or county; media (solid waste, weathered oil, air, surface water, liquid waste, tar, sediment, water); substance categories (based on media selection) and substances (based on substance category selection).

The volume of oil spills in and around waterways in the United States amounted to over 167,000 gallons in 2022. This was a reduction of over 62 percent in comparison to the previous year, when more than 449,000 gallons of oil were spilled.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill) began on 20 April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. Following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a sea-floor oil gusher flowed for 87 days, until it was capped on 15 July 2010. In response to the BP oil spill, EPA sampled air, water, sediment, and waste generated by the cleanup operations.

This collection includes 4 data files (one each for water, sediment, tissue, and tar/oil analyses) containing data from the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) Oil Spill Event Response Phase. These data are the work of Federal agencies, state environmental management agencies and BP and its contractors. This dataset represents the culmination of a quality-control process overseen by NOAA and involving each individual data provider. These data were originally uploaded by the data providers into the EPA Scribe data management system (see Scribe Database Collection, this page), and later transferred to NOAA's Query Manager system for final evaluation by NOAA. The files in this collection are extractions from Query Manager. This dataset is considered to supersede the Scribe Database Collection.

Hurricane Katrina made landfall in August 2005, causing widespread devastation along the Gulf Coast of the United States. EPA emergency response personnel worked with FEMA and state and local agencies to respond to the emergencies throughout the Gulf.

The Deepwater Horizon Joint Analysis Group (JAG) for Surface and Sub-Surface Oceanography, Oil and Dispersant Data was a working group with membership from federal agencies, BP, and academia that was formed to analyze sub-surface oceanographic data being derived from the on-going coordinated sampling efforts by private, federal and academic scientists as part of the spill response. The goal of the JAG was to provide comprehensive characterization of the Gulf of Mexico sub-surface conditions as well as the fate and transport of dispersed petroleum as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. JAG findings were published in a series of reports for the Unified Area Command as well as the public. This accession contains Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon and Volatile Organic Analysis data from laboratory analysis, as well as in situ Chromophoric Dissolved Organic Matter and dissolved oxygen data. This dataset was compiled as part of the final JAG summary report, and referred to in Appendix 3 of that report, NOAA Technical Report NOS OR&R 27 (2012).

United States - State and Local Governments; Capital Transfers Received, Other (Includes Disaster-Related Payments by BP to State and Local Governments for the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill), Transactions was 0.00000 Mil. of $ in April of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - State and Local Governments; Capital Transfers Received, Other (Includes Disaster-Related Payments by BP to State and Local Governments for the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill), Transactions reached a record high of 103520.00000 in April of 2022 and a record low of 0.00000 in October of 1947. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - State and Local Governments; Capital Transfers Received, Other (Includes Disaster-Related Payments by BP to State and Local Governments for the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill), Transactions - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on October of 2025.

The National Crude Oil Spill Fate and Natural Attenuation Research Site is located near Bemidji, MN, USA. A high-pressure oil pipeline ruptured in 1979 releasing ~1.7 million liters of light crude oil, which sprayed over an area of ~6500 square meters and collected in topographic depressions. Approximately 75% of the spilled oil was recovered. Much of the remainder reached the water table, where it is distributed into three residual oil bodies (the north, middle, and south oil pools). Groundwater flows east-northeast toward a small lake roughly 300 m downgradient from the original spill site. Secondary reactions of sediments with byproducts from anaerobic degradation of the oil plumes cause increases in total dissolved solids, which are transported in groundwater and raise the electrical conductivity of the groundwater above background levels, presenting a potential monitoring target for electrical geophysical methods.
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill) began on 20 April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. Following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, a sea-floor oil gusher flowed for 87 days, until it was capped on 15 July 2010. In response to the BP oil spill, EPA sampled air, water, sediment, and waste generated by the cleanup operations.

The USGS is conducting a long-term study of a terrestrial crude oil spill that resulted from a ruptured pipeline in 1979. Samples of oil bailed from wells were analyzed for polyaromatic hydrocarbons by a commercial lab. A total of 32 samples were analyzed in three batches. A sample that serves as a surrogate for the original spilled oil was submitted with each batch. For each oil sample, concentrations of a conservative compound can be compared to that found in the original spilled oil surrogate to obtain an estimate of the total oil mass that has been biodegraded.

These data are part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA), Lingering Oil component of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, project numbers 12120114-S, 13120114-S, 14120114-S, 15120114-S and, 16120114-S. Gulf Watch Alaska is the long-term integrated monitoring program of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (EVOSTC) for the marine ecosystem affected by the 1989 oil spill. The Lingering Oil Surveys dataset was designed to provide the EVOSTC with an assessment of persistent Exxon Valdez oil in Prince William Sound. This dataset is comprised of two related data types: survey and sample data in distinct data tables, which are provided in CSV format; and survey photographs from each sample site. The data tables describe survey locations, sampling sites, chain of custody for samples, gravimetric analysis of oiling at sampling sites, and the method detection limited analyte composition of samples. Surveys were conducted in June of 2015 at nine locations within Prince William Sound. Detailed standard operating procedures of the lingering oil monitoring surveys and petroleum hydrocarbon analysis are included as a pdf files. Survey photos are organized into shore-segment-based collections provided as PDFs files containing all photos from each shore segment. Each collection contains embedded images documenting the survey performed at the shore segment named in the file name (e.g. '2015_SM006B_photos.pdf'). Each page displays one image and provides the file name for the image.