Deepwater Horizon
An oil platform, resulting in an oil spill.
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, while drilling the Maconda well. It is not an oil carrier or tanker.
There was a oil rig owned by BP that exploded.
It was not an oil tanker, but a drilling platform.
The oil is coming from the deepwater horizon rig. It exploded causing a oil spill
11 men died.
The cause of the oil spill was that gases in one pipe were building up and then it eventually exploded.
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was from the Transocean Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig that exploded and spilled 42,000 gallons of oil into the ocean every day. It finally ended on July 15, 2010.
An oil rig exploded and caught fire on April 20th 2010 killing 11 people
Gulf of Mexico
There was recently a giant oil spill--an oil pumping station basically exploded, causing the largest oil spill in recorded history, as most other oil spills--if not all--have been tankers. This was a whole station.Other possible answers include:The Ixtoc I oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 1979Other Gulf of Mexico oil spillsPersian Gulf oil spills, possibly including the Gulf War oil spillOil spills in gulfs off of China.
The Gulf of Mexico