over 5 million gallons off the coast of galveston. on august 10th, 1993, three ships collide near tampa, florida, 336,000 gallons of oil spill into tampa bay. september 28th, 2000, an oil tanker runs aground near port sulphur, half a million gallons of oil pour into the lower mississippi. all of that oil moving around with neverending opportunity for huge oopses. then one of the deadliest oil disasters in history, a massive sxlos at a bp oil refinery in texas city, kills 15 people. the government determined bp was so egregiously negligence german it levied the largest fine ever, $21.3 million against that company. four years later that record was broken when officials fined bp another $87 million for failing to correct hundreds of safety violations at the very same texas city refinery, four years after they killed 15 of their