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Crude Oil Prices - Crude oil prices mainly for the USA. Details on crude oil prices per barrel, the crude oil price history and what events caused the price rises, the current crude oil prices, how crude oil is refined and more.
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Crude Oil Spills into rivers, bays, oceans are caused by accidents involving tankers, barges, pipelines, refineries, storage facilities, usually while the oil is being transported.
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Crude Oil Spills
The largest spill in the United States so far was the
Exxon Valdez spill into Prince William Sound, Alaska in March 1989.
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Collage
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On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez grounded on Bligh Reef in
Alaska's Prince William Sound, rupturing its hull and spilling nearly
11 million gallons of Prudhoe Bay crude oil into a remote, scenic, and
biologically productive body of water. It was the largest single oil
spill in U.S. coastal waters. In the weeks and months that followed,
the crude oil spills spread over a wide area in Prince William Sound and beyond,
resulting in an unprecedented response and cleanup.
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Oil Spill On Fire
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The most relevant links we could find, placed here free
 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
- Overview of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Includes links to many related resources, including photo galleries. response.restoration.noaa.gov
ARLIS Oil Spill Links
- Alaska Resources Library and Information Services (ARLIS) is the home
of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council's comprehensive
collection of EVOS materials, including final and annual project
reports, annual work plans, publications, videos and photographs. www.arlis.org
IncidentNews
- This site has news, photos, and other information about crude oil spills (and other incidents) where NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration provided scientific support for the incident response. www.incidentnews.gov
Information on Oil Spills
- by Coastal Hazards Portal. www.coastalhazards.info
Oil Spills
- Information from Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
Emergency Response Notification System (ERNS)
- contains historical spill information for the entire USA dating from 1986, and is currently available for downloading. www.nrc.uscg.mil
Crude Oil Spills
- in Philippines, Indian Ocean and Lebanon. You can aslo search for information on oil spills elsewhere around the world.
Information provided by Greenpeace. www.greenpeace.org
Oil Spills and Disasters
- from 1967 to 2007. www.infoplease.com
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Oiled Bird
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The Amoco Cadiz encountered stormy weather and ran aground off the
coast of Brittany, France on March 16, 1978. Its entire cargo of 68.7
million gallons of oil spilled into the sea, polluting about 200 miles
of Brittany's coastline.
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 have caused more than a thousand pollution
reports of crude oil spills along the coastal waters of Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana. This includes five designated as major
(spills greater than 100,000 gallons) and five classified as medium
(spills between 10,000 and 50,000 gallons). It is likely that the long-term affects to the
heavily populated Gulf Coast will be tremendous. "In terms of over-all impact, these two hurricanes have created the
largest incidents to which NOAA has ever responded," notes David
Kennedy, director of the NOAA Office of Response and Restoration, regarding the crude oil spills.
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