The crude oil was discharged from a pipeline near Bay Long, Louisiana, on September 5, 2016, according to the United States Coast Guard.
It was a roller coaster year for oil prices. And little wonder.
The Belle Fourche pipeline that leaked into a small tributary of the Little Missouri river on 5 December 2016 is now estimated to have spilled over 500,000 gallons of oil.
A broken Chevron Corporation pipeline has spilled around 4,800 gallons of oil that has flowed into an intermittent stream on public land in northwest Colorado, USA.
Authorities of the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) in Costa Rica, captured a band that was stealing product from a pipeline.