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Global Quantity of Oil Spilled from Tankers (1970–2022)

Global Quantity of Oil Spilled from Tankers (1970–2022)

The number of oil spills and the quantity of oil that is spilled from tankers — container ships transporting oil — has fallen substantially in recent decades.

On our new page, you can find all our data, visualizations, and writing related to oil spills from tankers, for which consistent, high-quality global data is available.

But not all oil spills come from tankers. They can also come from other sites, such as offshore oil rigs and damaged pipelines.