"In Nigeria's Akwa Ibom State, an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured on May 1, 2010 and spilled over a million gallons
of oil,
reported the Guardian. The leak continued for seven days before it was stopped.
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In May 2010, several thousand barrels of oil spilled from the Trans-Alaska pipeline "during a scheduled pipeline shutdown
at a pump station near Fort Greely,"
explained AP.
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In June 2010, a Chevron pipeline ruptured and spilled oil into a creek near Salt Lake City, Utah.
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In late July 2010, an Enbridge pipeline in southwestern Michigan sprung a leak and
spilled over 800,000 gallons of oil into a creek which flows into the Kalamazoo River.
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In July 2010, China experienced what was reported as the "
country's largest reported oil spill" after a pipeline rupture near the northeastern port city of Dailan. The Chinese government reported that about 461,790 gallons of oil had spilled,
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In late April 2011, a pipeline in northwestern Alberta began leaking, and created the worst spill in the province in
36 years,
reported the Calgary Herald.
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In June 2011, an oil
spill occurred about 25 miles off the coast of China's Shandong province in Bohai Bay.
A second spill followed in July.
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In July 2011, a pipeline beneath Montana's Yellowstone River ruptured and sent an oil plume 25 miles downstream,
reported AP.
Despite reassurances from ExxonMobil that the pipeline was safe,
the July spill released what was originally estimated to be 42,000 gallons of oil.
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In August 2011,
an oil rig off the eastern coast of Scotland began leaking oil into the North Sea. Royal Dutch Shell,
which operates the Gannet Alpha oil rig, initially reported that 54,600 gallons of oil were spilled.
A second leak soon occurred, turning the spill into the worst in the North Sea in a decade,
reported AP.
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In mid-November 2011, Brazilian authorities began investigating an offshore spill near Rio de Janeiro,
reported AP.
Chevron initially reported that between 400 and 650 barrels of oil had spilled into the Atlantic, while a nonprofit
environmental group using satellite imagery estimated that the spill rate was at least 3,738 barrels per day.
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In October 2011, a Liberian-flagged cargo ship ran aground on a reef in Northern New Zealand and began leaking oil.
With oil washing up on shore, a government minister deemed it
the country's largest maritime environmental disaster
a week later.
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The spill, which took place near the coast of Nigeria, was reported as "likely the worst to hit those waters in a decade,"
according to AP. The spill, which covered 350 square miles of ocean at its peak, was reported as having released
"40,000 barrels -- or 1.68 million gallons" of oil."
Or I could have posted this in this thread-
http://www.altenergy...lanet-with-oil/
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