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	Oil spill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An oil spill is the intentional or unintentional release of oil (generally, petroleum) into the natural environment as a result of human activity.
		The term often refers to marine oil spills where oil is released into the ocean or coastal waters.
		Oil is also released into the environment from natural geologic seeps on the seafloor, as along the California coastline.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oil_spill (775 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Oil spill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		An oil spill is the release of oil (generally, petroleum) into the natural environment, usually the ocean.
		Oil means oil of any kind or in any form and includes crude oil, oil refuse, petroleum-related products or by-products, oil mixed in waste, oily ballast, and oily bilge water.
		Studies of the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill have shown that the environmental damage caused by oil spills is greater than was previously thought.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Oil_spill (427 words)

	Oil Spills and Disasters
		Accidental oil spills, usually caused when ships carrying oil are damaged, are harmful to the ocean, the beaches, and the wildlife inhabiting the area.
		Although it is one of the largest known oil spills, it had a low environmental impact.
		Russian state-owned oil company claimed spill was only 102,000 barrels.
	www.factmonster.com /ipa/A0001451.html (492 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: The Economic History of Norway
		In 1969 Philips Petroleum discovered petroleum resources at the Ekofisk field, which was defined as part of the Norwegian continental shelf.
		Persistently high oil prices from the autumn 1973 to the end of 1985 pushed labor costs upward, through spillover effects from high wages in the petroleum sector.
		When oil prices fell dramatically from December 1985 onwards, the trade surplus was suddenly turned to a huge deficit (Figure 6).
	www.eh.net /encyclopedia/article/grytten.norway (3772 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 1980
		March 26 - A mine lift cage at the Vaal Reef gold mine in South Africa falls 1.2 miles, killing twenty-three.
		March 27 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
		March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in leap years).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1980 (7029 words)

	Mark Zoback's Published Papers
		Zoback, M.L. and M.D. Zoback, Tectonic stress field of the continental U.S..
		Zoback, M.D. and M.L. Zoback, Tectonic stress field of North America and relative plate motions, in Slemmons, D.B., Engdahl, E.R., Zoback, M.D. and Blackwell, D.D., eds.,Neotectonics of North America.
		Zoback, M.D. and J. Zinke, Production-induced normal faulting in the Valhall and Ekofisk oil fields, Pure and Applied Geophysics,159, 403-420.
	geo.stanford.edu /~zoback/papers.html (6141 words)

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