CNN image(CNN) For 15 years, oil from one particular spill has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico.
That's about a hundred to a thousand times worse than the company's initial estimate, which put the amount of oil flowing into the ocean at less than three gallons a day.
The leak started in 2004, when an oil platform belonging to the Taylor Energy Company was damaged by a mudslide after Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf of Mexico.
But after local activists observed more oil slicks near the site of the Deepwater Horizon Spill in 2010, the Taylor oil spill started getting national attention.
Taylor Energy has claimed that intervening further could release more oil and negatively affect the environment.