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Record Oil Spills (thing)
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by
jimmyCarter
Tue May 02 2000 at 10:05:26
Ixtoc I oil well, S.
Gulf of Mexico
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June
3,
1979
| Cause:
Blowout
600,000 tons
Nowruz oil field,
Persian Gulf
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Feb.
1983
| Cause: Blowout
600,000 tons (
est.
)
Atlantic
Princess
& Aegean Captain, off
Trinidad and Tobago
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July 19,
1979
| Cause:
Collision
300,000 tons
Castillo de Beliver, off
Cape Town
,
South Africa
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Aug. 6,
1983
| Cause:
Fire
250,000 tons
Amoco Cadiz, near Portsall,
France
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March 16,
1978
| Cause:
Grounding
223,000 tons
In comparison, the
Exxon Valdez
spill off of
Prince William Sound
,
Alaska
was a relatively small spillage of 34,000.
When oil recycling plants explode
Exxon Valdez
Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Blow-out
Oil spill
Supertanker
Exxon
Torrey Canyon
Amoco Cadiz
double hull
Olympic Pipeline Explosion
Gulf of Mexico
oil dry
Prince William Sound
OPEC
Persian Gulf
Trinidad and Tobago
Blowout
Gulf Coast
Ocean Ranger
1979
Prince William
Alaska
Hub Oil Disaster