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| x Murphy Oil Spill |
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According to US Coast Guard there were about 44 oil spills in the area affected by Hurricane Katrina. Most of these occurred in areas of Plaquemines Parish which do not have large populations. The exception is the Murphy Oil Spill which hit...
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| x Greenpoint Oil Spill |
The areas of the northeast industrial section of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York along the Newtown Creek were home to oil refineries from the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s and continued to be used for bulk petroleum storage until 1993 . The largest...
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| x 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill |
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The Cosco Busan is the former name (now known as the Hanjin Venezia) of a 901-foot-long container ship at the time that it hit a protective fender of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in heavy fog at 8:30 a.m. on November 7, 2007. The collision...
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| x Jiyeh power station oil spill |
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25,000 t |
The Jiyeh Power Station oil spill is an environmental disaster, caused by the release of heavy fuel oil into the eastern Mediterranean after storage tanks at the thermal power station in Jiyeh, Lebanon, 30 km (19 mi) south of Beirut, were bombed by...
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| x 2007 Korea oil spill |
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10,800 t |
The MT Hebei Spirit oil spill is a major oil spill in South Korea that began on the morning of 7 December 2007 local time, with ongoing environmental and economic effects. Government officials called it South Korea's worst oil spill ever, surpassing...
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| x Guimaras oil spill |
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The Guimaras oil spill is an ongoing environmental and economic disaster that started on August 11, 2006. It is dubbed as the worst oil spill the Philippines had ever seen.
The oil tanker M/T Solar I, carrying more than two million liters of bunker...
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| x Prudhoe Bay Pipeline Oil Spill |
The Prudhoe Bay oil spill (2006 Alaskan oil spill) was an oil spill that was discovered on March 2, 2006 at a pipeline owned by BP Exploration, Alaska (BPXA) in western Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Initial estimates said that up to 267,000 US gallons (6,400...
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| x 2008 New Orleans oil spill |
The 2008 New Orleans oil spill was an oil spill that occurred on on 23 July 2008 at New Orleans, Louisiana, in which No. 6 fuel oil was spilled into the Mississippi River after a tanker collided with Barge DM932 being pulled by a tugboat upriver...
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| x Prestige oil spill |
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The Prestige was an oil tanker whose sinking in 2002 off the Galician coast caused a large oil spill. The spill polluted thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish and French coast, as well as causing...
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| x Exxon Valdez oil spill |
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The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in the Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989. It is considered one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters ever to occur at sea. As significant as the Valdez spill was, it ranks well...
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| x Gulf War oil spill |
The Gulf War oil spill is regarded as the worst oil spill in history, resulting from actions taken during the Gulf War in 1991 by the Iraq military.
It caused considerable damage to wildlife in the Persian Gulf especially in areas surrounding Kuwait...
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| x Amoco Haven tanker disaster |
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1,444,000 t |
The M/T Haven (formerly Amoco Milford Haven), was a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier), leased to Troodos Shipping (a company ran by Lucas Haji-Ioannou and his son Stelios Haji-Ioannou). In 1991, while loaded with 144,000 tonnes (1 million barrels) of...
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| x West Cork oil spill |
The West Cork oil spill is an ongoing oil spill off the southern coast of Ireland. The spill was first identified by the European Maritime Safety Agency's CleanSeaNet satellite monitoring system on 14 February 2009. An Irish Air Corps marine patrol...
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| x Santa Barbara oil spill | 20,000 t |
The Santa Barbara oil spill occurred in 1969 in the Santa Barbara Channel. The source was a January 28, 1969 blow-out on Union Oil's Platform A, six miles offshore, in the Dos Cuadras Offshore Oil Field. Over a 10-day period, an estimated 80,000 to...
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| x Julie N. |
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586 t |
The Julie N. is a Liberian Tanker that was involved in an oil spill occurring on the Fore River on September 27, 1996, in Portland, Maine. The 560 ft (170 meters) ship was carrying over 200,000 barrels (27800 tonnes) of heating oil and was headed...
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