Longest Oil Spill in U.S. History May Be 900 Times Larger Than Originally Estimated

By Yessenia Funes

AP

This March 31, 2015, aerial file photo shows an oil sheen from the former Taylor Energy oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana.

While the BP oil disaster has received far more attention, elsewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, oil has been leaking into the water for far longer. The so-called Taylor oil spill began in 2004 but it went largely unnoticed until an investigation by the Associated Press in 2015. Now, federal agencies are finally learning just how much oil has leaked in what has become the longest spill in US history—and it’s looking far worse than the company let on.

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