• The Greenpoint oil spill is one of the largest oil spills ever recorded in the United States. Located around Newtown Creek in the Greenpoint neighborhood...
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    The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that made worldwide headlines in the spring of 1989 and occurred in Alaska's Prince William...
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    1950 Greenpoint oil spill, at the time the largest oil spill in United States history, 17 to 30 million U.S. gallons (64×10^6 to 114×10^6 L) of oil spilled...
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    The Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn was once home to many oil refineries for more than a century. In 1950, Mobil was alleged to have spilled 17 million...
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    Supply Co. to force cleanup of the oil spill at Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and to restore Newtown Creek. A study of the spill released by the US Environmental...
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    US gallons (110,000,000 L; 25,000,000 imp gal) of spilled oil, including the Greenpoint oil spill, raw sewage from New York City's sewer system, and...
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    Retrieved October 25, 2019. "Cuomo sues ExxonMobil over catastrophic Greenpoint oil spill". July 7, 2007. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013....
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  • 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...
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  • Lakeview Gusher oil spill in California, 1910 –1911 Leaded gasoline introduced 1920s; phased out globally by 2012. Greenpoint oil spill in Brooklyn, New...
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    primarily used by its predecessor Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup of the original Standard Oil company in 1911. The company adopted the name...
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  • Valdez oil spill was the second largest in U.S. history, and in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez incident, the U.S. Congress passed the Oil Pollution...
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  • Imperial Oil Limited (French: Compagnie Pétrolière Impériale Ltée) is a Canadian petroleum company. It is Canada's second-largest integrated oil company...
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  • Oil and Refining Co. was an American oil company founded in 1911 in Humble, Texas. In 1919, a 50% interest in Humble was acquired by the Standard Oil...
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  • American oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil. The brand was formerly owned and operated by an oil and gas corporation of the same name (Mobil Oil Corporation)...
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    report significant oil spills to regulatory authorities. The Exxon Valdez oil spill is the best-known accident involving Alaska oil, but it did not involve...
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    Rex Tillerson (category American businesspeople in the oil industry)
    Russia. He has previously been the director of the joint United States-Russia oil company Exxon Neftegas. Tillerson became Secretary of State on February 1...
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    1 is a brand of synthetic motor oil and other automotive lubrication products. Originally developed by the Mobil oil company, it is now globally marketed...
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  • Retrieved 2023-11-21. "Looking back 45 years after the discovery of the Greenpoint Oil Spill, one of the largest ever recorded in our country's history - CBS...
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  • American businessman who was the chairman, president, and CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey (now the Exxon Corporation). Rathbone was born in Parkersburg...
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    oil spill occurred on March 29, 2013, when the Pegasus Pipeline, owned by ExxonMobil and carrying Canadian Wabasca heavy crude from the Athabasca oil...
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  • ExxonMobil Nigeria (category Oil and gas companies of Nigeria)
    its shallow water oil production operations. In 2010 the Nigerial government warned ExxonMobil after a series of offshore oil spills. According to Reuters...
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    Exxon Valdez was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound, spilling her cargo of crude oil into the sea. On 24...
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    that global warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Of the major oil corporations, ExxonMobil has been the most active in the debate surrounding...
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    secondary retail brand name for products of the Humble Oil Corporation (which had been acquired by Standard Oil of New Jersey in 1959) in certain parts of the...
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    2013 Mayflower oil spill Exxon Valdez oil spill Greenpoint oil spill SS Atlantic Empress SS Esso Brussels Oil & gas fields Colony Shale Oil Project East-Prinovozemelsky...
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    oil refineries were concentrated in the Greenpoint area of Brooklyn, beginning with Astral Oil Works in 1867. In the 1970s, the Greenpoint oil spill was...
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    New-York Tribune. September 21, 1919. LCCN sn83030214. Newtown Creek/Greenpoint Oil Spill Study: Brooklyn, New York (Report). Environmental Protection Agency...
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    province of Quebec utilize similar branding as "Marché Express"; Imperial Oil faced criticism in 2007 when it planned to rebrand the locations as On the...
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    Fawley Refinery (category Oil refineries in the United Kingdom)
    They are designed specifically for oil terminal duties with fire fighting capabilities, rescue equipment and oil spill boom equipment. In addition to the...
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  • Vacuum Oil Company was an American oil company known for its Gargoyle 600-W steam cylinder motor oil. After being taken over by the original Standard Oil Company...
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