Amoco Cadiz oil spill
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amoco-cadiz-oil-spill-203-8983914
title:
Amoco Cadiz oil spill
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The Amoco Cadiz oil spill took place on 16 March 1978, when the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz, owned by the American petroleum company Amoco, ran aground on Portsall Rocks, 2 km (1.2 mi) from the coast of Brittany, France. The vessel ultimately split in three and sank. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimates that the total oil spill amounted to 220,880 tonnes of oil which amounts to over 58 million gallons or 256.2 million litres, making it the largest oil spill of its k
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Oil spill near coast of Brittany
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoco_Cadiz_oil_spill
date created:
2011-10-15T02:22:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:55:41Z
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