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In the early/mid 70s I lived just outside of Halifax, Nova Scotia - and I still remember a hurricane that came up the coast and snapped an oil rig loose that was under construction in Halifax harbour. The timing of the hurricane was bad - high tide was coming in at the same time.
The rig headed towards one of the two bridges that connects Halifax to Dartmouth on the opposite side of the harbour. Bookies were taking bets whether the bridge would shear off the upper portion of the oil rig...or if the oil rig would collapse the bridge.
They managed to hook several massive tugboats onto the rig only a few hundred yards from the bridge and tow it back to the construction docks.
Not exactly oil spill related...but the OP reminded me of the incident back in the day.
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