That oil spill was a result of inattention, bad operational management and poor equipment maintenance - namely, when blowout preventers failed to choke off the oil flowing from the pipe and thus failed to disconnect the rig from the well. Over 172 million gallons of crude oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. You may be aware of the disastrous oil spill from the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon offshore rig back in 2011.
The technological equivalent of an oil spill would be a data loss, theft, compromise, or a ransomware lockup.