Taylor oil spill is an ongoing spill located in the Gulf of Mexico , around off the coast of the U.S. state of Louisiana , which resulted from the destruction of a Taylor Energy oil platform during Hurricane Ivan , and it is the longest oil spill in U.S. history . It was first brought to public attention when the contamination at the site was noticed in 2010 by those monitoring the nearby Deepwater Horizon oil spill . A later report by the Associated Press in 2015 challenged the estimates of the extent of the leak given by the company and the U.S. Coast Guard , which were then revised to be around 20 times greater than initially reported
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Taylor oil spill