After 12 years of litigation, the parties in the Amoco Cadiz oil spill case are assembling an out-of-court settlement that, if accepted, would cut short a dispute still years away from a final ruling.

A federal appeals court Friday ordered Chicago-based Amoco Corp. to pay ... from one of the world`s worst oil spills-the 1978 wreck of the supertanker Amoco Cadiz. A three-judge panel of the ...

8. The Amoco Cadiz oil spill released 69 million gallons of oil The tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground off the coast of northern Brittany in France on March 16, 1978. It ultimately gushed 69 million ...

Show more In 1978, the Amoco Cadiz tanker ran aground off the coast of France. The supertanker split, releasing more than 220,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea. It was the largest oil spill ...

Oil spills produce a powerful impulse to clean ... No case illustrates that point more starkly than the 1978 spill of the Amoco Cadiz tanker. Caught in a gale, it was propelled against rocks ...

for damages caused by the wreck of the supertanker Amoco Cadiz, which foundered off the coast of Brittany almost 10 years ago, producing Europe’s worst oil spill. The award was said to be the ...

The largest accidental oil spill in US history happened during ... covered with oil after the sinking of the Amoco Cadiz. Marine life in the region was decimated, and an immediate mortality ...

We applied the two techniques: biomarkers analysis and pyrolysis of asphaltenes to the long-term characterisation of the Amoco Cadiz oil 23 years after the spill in the salt marshes of Ile Grande ...

learn more about one of the world’s largest oil spills from the Amoco Cadiz tanker and why not everyone welcomes the discovery of oil. Show more Max Pearson presents a collection of this week ...