Preventable Disaster, in This Week’s Open Thread
The spill occurred when Exxon Valdez, an oil supertanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, bound for Long Beach, California, ...
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Britain's worst ever oil spill: As tanker collides with container vessel off Yorkshire coast... how ship grounding in 1967 caused devastation
In March 1967, the SS Torrey Canyon supertanker ran aground on rocks between the Scilly Isles and Cornwall, spilling more than 100,000 tonnes of crude oil into the ocean. What remains Britain's ...
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Sanctions Are Tangling, Not Stopping, China’s Iran Oil Trade
The chartering rate for a non-sanctioned supertanker willing to move Iranian oil from Malaysia to China was pegged at between $5 million to $6 million earlier this month — a level that traders ...
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Tanker Collision Off UK Coast Spills Fuel and Ignites Blazes
No oil pollution has been confirmed yet ... There have also been other major UK spills. In 1967, the supertanker Torrey Canyon ran aground and leaked more than 119,000 tons off the country ...
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One Person Missing After Oil Tanker and Container Ship Collide in the North Sea
A container ship hit a stationary U.S.-flagged oil tanker on Monday, forcing the crews to abandon ship. A search for a missing crew member ended Monday night. By Megan Specia Reporting from London.