NBCNews.com | Tens of Thousands of Gallons of Crude Oil Spill Into Gulf of Mexico NBCNews.com Almost 90,000 gallons of crude oil gushed from a Shell oil facility into the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast on Thursday, leaving a 13- by 2-mile sheen of oil on the waves, federal authorities said. The Coast Guard said that the spill had been ... Shell spills 88000 gallons of crude oil off Timbalier Island: Coast Guard Louisiana Oil Spill Dumps More Than 88000 Gallons Of Oil Into Gulf More than 88000 gallons of crude oil spill from Louisiana Shell pipeline |