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The Kirki was a 210-metre-long Greek-registered oil tanker which caught fire in the early morning of 21 July 1991, 30 km west of the fishing town of Cervantes, Western Australia, causing what at the time was the worst oil spill to have occurred in Australian waters.
Oil tanker World Encouragement oil spill – 1979 [5] Appin coal mine explosion resulting in the death of 14 miners – 1979; Oil tanker Esso Gippsland oil spill – 1982 [6] Moura coal mine roof fall and explosion – 1986 [7] Collinsville Coal Roof collapse in mine shaft – 1988 [8] Crude oil tanker Arthur Phillip oil spill – 1990 [9]
This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons , 256 Imperial gallons , 7.33 barrels , or 1165 litres .
Yemen's Houthi rebels released footage on Thursday showing their fighters boarded and placed explosives on a Greek-flagged tanker, setting off blasts that put the Red Sea at risk of a major oil spill.
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Early this week, discount airline Spirit Airlines roused controversy with a web promotion that made light of the Gulf Coast oil spill. Within a day, the ad was pulled from Spirit's site and the ...
Kirki (tanker), an oil tanker causing the oil spill outside of Australia on 21 July 1991; Kirki, Republic of Dagestan, a rural locality in Dagestan, Russia; the Andean instrument Charango; the Indian city founded in 1610 that was renamed Aurangabad in 1653
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