Financial Post | A 14-year-long oil spill in Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in US history Financial Post Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil per day have been spewing from a site 12 miles off the Louisiana coast since 2004, when an oil-production platform owned by Taylor Energy sank in a mudslide triggered by Hurricane Ivan. Many of the wells have not been ... A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could become one of the worst in US history This oil spill off Louisiana's coast has been leaking for 14 years |