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2. Exxon Valdez oil spill - Wikipedia

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   The spill occurred when Exxon Valdez, an oil supertanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound 's Bligh Reef, 6 mi (9.7 km) west of Tatitlek, Alaska at 12:04 a.m. The tanker spilled more than 10 million US gallons (240,000 bbl) (or 37,000 tonnes) [1] of crude oil over the next few days.

3. BP Oil Spill Creates a Wave of New Jobs, Takes Others Under - AOL

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   The oil spill is drawing in a boatload of orders for equipment and services to mop up the mess, and that translates to a surge in hiring for the cleanup companies.

4. Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge - Wikipedia

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   The Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE was a challenge award offered by the X PRIZE Foundation for efficient capturing of crude oil from ocean water. Inspired by the ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, [1] the award was announced on July 29, 2010, and the official one-year competition began on August 1, 2010. [1]

5. Oil gushed into the Gulf and people got sick. A secret ... - AOL

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   Cleanup of the BP oil spill. In the weeks and months after the disaster, Mattiford, 59, said representatives from BP fanned out across the area handing out money and hiring people to work on ...

6. Oil spill - Wikipedia

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   An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is usually given to marine oil spills, where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters, but spills may also occur on land.

7. Cleanup is done on a big Kansas oil spill on the Keystone ...

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   The spill dumped nearly 13,000 barrels of crude oil — each one enough to fill a standard household bathtub — into the creek as it ran through a rural pasture. The oil was recovered by mid-May ...