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Crude calamities â the biggest offshore oil spill disasters Deepwater Horizon oil spill, USA (2010) The Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster occurred in April 2010 in BP's Macondo oil and gas prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, spewing 4.9 million barrels of oil, the world's biggest offshore oil-spill disaster to date.
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Standard Oil refinery fire of 1955 On Aug. 27, 1955, an explosion at the Standard Oil refinery in Whiting, Ind., destroyed much of the plant and dozens of homes. The explosion occurred in a “hydroformer,” a 26-story-high tank used to convert low-octane gasoline into high-octane gasoline at what is now a BP refinery.
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Average Cost of Cleaning Oil Spills Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster. On the 20 of April, 2010 there was an explosion followed by fire on the Transocean’s drilling oil rig, Deepwater Horizon operating in the Gulf of Mexico, in which 11 men died.
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Big Oil: Which Are The Top 10 Biggest Oil Companies? 4. ExxonMobil ($394 billion) – the Texas-based oil major is one of the most iconic oil companies, and it is the largest private company by production with 5.3 mb/d. When Exxon acquired Mobil in 1999 – both companies are descendants of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil – it created the largest company on the planet.
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Largest oil fields in the world Safaniya - largest offshore oil field in the world. Safaniya field in the Persian Gulf, Saudi Arabia, is the world's largest offshore field. It is owned and operated by Saudi Aramco, the national oil and natural gas company of Saudi Arabia. The field is believed to contain an estimated total reserve of more than 50 billion barrels.
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The Largest Oil Spills in History, 1901 to Present This map shows the largest oil spills in history (1901 to Present), from tanker accidents and drilling operations, as well as a number of other notable spills. An oil spill is a release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.
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Environmental disasters Gulf of Mexico, USA, 2010. An oil spill caused by the explosion of semi-submersible oil rig drilling ultradeep Deepwater Horizon.The explosion caused one of the largest environmental disasters in the world.
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BP Gulf Oil Spill: Facts, Economic Impact The BP oil spill began when the Deepwater Horizon rig suffered an explosion on April 20, 2010. Of the 126 workers at the site that day, eleven were killed by the blast. In its first month, BP spilled 30 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, three times the Exxon Valdez.
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Does Oil Spill Damage Last Forever? http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015... An oil pipeline burst yesterday, spilling an estimated 21,000 gallons (79,500 liters)of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean near Santa Barbara, California.. List of oil spills. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Toxic hotspot The 1984 Bhopal disaster in India, the world’s worst chemical disaster, is a prime example of a significant toxic hotspot. The toxic gas leaked from the understaffed Union Carbide plant killed up to 20,000 people and left 120,000 others chronically ill.
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Gulf Oil Spill Within days of the April 20, 2010 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people, underwater cameras revealed the BP pipe was leaking oil and gas on the ocean floor about 42 miles off the coast of Louisiana.
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Top 5 Most Expensive Natural Disasters in History Meanwhile, the government is struggling to contain a nuclear crisis, which adds to the country's disaster. While analysts are estimating that the Japan disaster is likely to be the costliest on record, AccuWeather.com has calculated the world's five most expensive natural disasters in history. 1. Earthquake and tsunami, Japan (2011) Cost: $235 billion (by the World Bank)
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- Exxon Valdez disaster In 1989 an oil tanker, the Exxon Valdez, ran aground off the Alaskan coast, releasing crude oil into the sea, causing one of the worst environmental disasters in US history. At four minutes past midnight on March the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
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- 10 Giant EPA Settlements in 2012. In this April 21, 2010 photo, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico. Transocean is among the companies nabbed with an EPA settlement in 2012.
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) began on 20 April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-owned Transocean-operated Macondo Prospect.he National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling was established on 22 May to consider the root causes of the disaster and offer options on safety and environmental precautions.. The investigation by United States Attorney General Eric Holder was announced on 1 June 2010.
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- The accident appeared to be one of the most deadly rail disasters in Italy in seven years. In  June 2009, a 14-car freight train carrying liquefied petroleum gas derailed and exploded in Viareggio, on the west coast of Italy in the Tuscany region. That disaster killed 32 people.
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The Worst Oil Spills in History Location: Persian Gulf, Kuwait. Oil Spilled: 380 million-520 million gallons. The worst oil spill in world history wasn't the result of a tanker accident, a pipeline failure, or an offshore drilling catastrophe. It was an act of war. During the Gulf War, Iraqi forces attempted to stop a potential American troop landing by opening the valves at the Sea Island oil terminal in Kuwait and dumping oil from several tankers in the Persian Gulf.
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Alaska The largest oil spill to occur in the United States so far was the Exxon Valdez spill into Prince William Sound, Alaska, in March 1989. The Exxon Valdez, a medium-sized oil tanker, ran aground on a reef to cause this spill of almost 11 million gallons of crude oil.
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Oil spills and their effect on the ocean We haven't even touched on the subject of illegal oil dumping (which occurs on a regular basis and is extremely difficult to control) or oil rigs where their oil leaks into the ocean. Last year, the world witnessed Australia's third largest oil spill – it started on August 21 and the blow-out at the Montara well caused spillage of 2 000 barrels of oil per day into the Timor Sea.
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- Based on the true events that occurred on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, the story chronicles the courage of those who worked on the Deepwater Horizon and the extreme moments of bravery and survival in the face of what would become one of the biggest man-made disasters in world history. Rating: NR.
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Predicting Oil-Spill Trajectories, Casco Bay 1972-96 Impact In 1972, the tanker Tamano spilled 380,000 liters (100,000 gal) of oil into Casco Bay, near Portland in southern Maine, then the largest oil spill in the state's history. Plans for dealing with spills were antiquated and slow to be implemen- ted.
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10 largest oil spills in history Uzbekistan. 87.7 million gallons. Nearly 88 million gallons of oil spilled from an oil well in Fergana Valley, one of Uzbekistans's most active energy-and oil-refining areas. While the spill didn't get much press at the time, it is the largest inland spill ever reported.
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Gulf Disaster CATASTROPHE IN THE gulf of Mexico: devastation persists. It’s been five years since BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people and unleashing the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.
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403 Forbidden The British oil giant says it has paid approximately $27 billion so far in clean-up costs, fines and settlements since the 2010 explosion and subsequent undersea gusher that vented an estimated 4.9 million barrels (210 million gallons) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Biggest Oil Companies In The World Saudi Aramco. Saudi Aramco is the largest and leading world oil company in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The company is a state-owned company that was founded in 1933 as the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company and renamed in 1988 as the Saudi Aramco.
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) is an industrial disaster that began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.