Gulf War oil well fires and oil spills
U.S. war planes over Kuwait, with oil well fires in background.In January and February of 1991, Iraqi military forces deliberatly set fire to oil wells in Kuwait and released oil into the Persian Gulf as part of its "scorched earth" policy near the end of Gulf War. As many as one billion barrels of oil were burned or released to the environment, making these acts the single largest oil-related environmental disaster in history.
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