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Article: Gulf oil threatens ecology, maybe climate. (Persian Gulf oil spill)
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- Science News
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- February 2, 1991
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Gulf oil threatens ecology, maybe climate
On or about Jan. 20, five oil supertankers berthed at the Kuwaiti port of Mina al Ahmadi began discharging an estimated 3 million barrels of crude oil into the Persian Gulf. At about the same time, an underwater pipeline carrying crude oil from storage tanks there to Sea Island, a tanker-loading terminal about 10 miles offshore, also began spewing oil into the Gulf.
U.S. Defense Department officials say "precision munitions" fired on Jan. 26 from an allied aircraft apparently halted the flow from the pipeline by sealing off its inlet pipes -- but not before it had pumped out an estimated 7 to 8 million barrels of ...