Japan’s private-sector oil reserves were released during the 1991 Gulf War and following the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami, but turning on the taps to release the state’s oil ...

The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010 spilled 205.8 million gallons of oil and 225,000 tons of methane into the Gulf of Mexico. Only about 25 percent of the oil was recovered, leaving more than ...