Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Rikicin Gulf War oil spill ya kasance sakamakon kai tsaye na Gulf War wanda ya faru daga 1990-1991. Yaƙin da aka yi tsakanin Iraki, a ƙarƙashin Saddam Hussein, da sojojin haɗin gwiwa ya fara ne da mamayewar Iraki da mamaye Kuwait
a ranar 2 ga Agusta, 1990. mamayewar ta kasance sakamakon rikice-rikicen yanki da na mai na dogon lokaci. Watanni da yawa a cikin yakin, sojojin kawance sun jagoranci hare-hare kan sojojin Iraqi a Iraki da Kuwait a ranar 16 ga Janairu, 1991. Kusan mako guda bayan haka, sojojin Iraki sun mayar da martani ga wadannan hare-haren ta hanyar zubar da man fetur a cikin Tekun Farisa, wanda hakan ya haifar da mummunar zubar da man fetur na Gulf War. A cewar Sakataren Makamashi James D. Watkins, sojojin Amurka sun riga sun shirya don irin wannan motsi, kamar yadda Saddam Hussein ya yi barazanar zubar da man fetur a cikin Gulf Persian.