The Huffington post offers some stats:
Estimated number of barrels of oil spilled on average into marine waters worldwide each year: 4.7 million
Estimated number of barrels of oil spilled from [...] the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast in April 2010: 4.9 million
Number of major oil spills in 2009 on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (tracked by the U.S. Minerals Management Service): 10
Number of oil spills or potential oil spills reported to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration since the Deepwater Horizon accident: 17
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