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In January and February 1969, in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara, in Southern California. It was the largest oil spill in United States waters at the time, and now ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills. It remains the largest oil spill to have occurred in the waters off California.
This is the biggest oil spill in Keystone Pipeline history. [31] December 23 – Energy Transfer Partners experienced a failure, at their Cygnet, Ohio Pump Station, that resulted in the release of approximately 83,000 gallons of crude oil, a portion which migrated off property controlled by Energy Transfer. The cause appeared to be hydrogen ...
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 .
Last month, we saw a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico go up in flames. You may not have heard about it, though, because that rig was drilling for natural gas, so the threat of environmental ...
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June 3, 1979: Ixtoc I oil spill. The Ixtoc I exploratory oil well suffered a blowout resulting in the third largest oil spill and the second largest accidental spill in history. November 20, 1980: A Texaco oil rig drilled into a salt mine transforming the Lake Peigneur, a freshwater lake before the accident, into a salt water lake.
Oil giant Chevron’s recent $13 million fine for more than 70 oil spills in California grabbed headlines and set a record for the biggest fine ever paid to the state Department of Conservation.
Map showing location of Martin County in Kentucky Wolf Creek on October 22, 2000. The Martin County coal slurry spill was a mining accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000, when the bottom of a coal slurry impoundment owned by Massey Energy in Martin County, Kentucky, broke into an abandoned underground mine below. [1]