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Major Oil Spills

A gallery featuring photos of some of the world's largest oil spills, along with a little information about each of those spills.

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Docked ship on fire with plumes of black smoke rising

Cibro Savannah

The Cibro Savannah exploded and caught fire while departing the pier at the CITGO facility in Linden, New Jersey, on March 6, 1990. About 127,000 gallons of oil remained unaccounted for after the incident: no one knows how much oil burned and how much spilled into the environment.


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