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Major Oil Spill in the World

Nowruz Oil Field Spill

In 1983, the Persian Gulf, Iran

How to cleanup

The clean-up effort largely centered around the use of skimmers and pumps by Norpol.

How long did it take

The clean up is not start because the ongoing war. It took about two year to put out fire.

pump

citation

  • http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1991/03/ridgeway.html
  • http://rainforestfoundation.org/effects-oil-drilling-0

The four largest oil spill in the world

Erik

How it happened

A tanker collided with a platform.

The platform developed a 45-degree tilt and had to be shut down.

  • Amount spilled: 80 million gallons (1.9 million barrels)
  • Casualties: 11 dead

Effect on the Ecosystem

Who is responsible

The Nowruz spill killed 400 sea turtles in a few months and casuse mammel and bird reduce growing .

Affect of Area

The biggest reason of the oil field is the Iran-Iraq war.

Iraq's Persian Gulf neighbors were all well aware of this danger because they had seen similar catastrophes in earlier conflicts. During the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq blew up several Iranian drilling platforms, causing the Nowruz oil spill, which lasted for nearly eight months and poured more than 500,000 barrels of heavy crude into the gulf.

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