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  2. Kuwaiti oil fires - Wikipedia

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    Smoke plumes from a few of the Kuwaiti Oil Fires on April 7, 1991, as seen from Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-37.. The Kuwaiti oil fires were caused by the Iraqi military setting fire to a reported 605 to 732 oil wells along with an unspecified number of oil filled low-lying areas, such as oil lakes and fire trenches, as part of a scorched earth policy while retreating from Kuwait in 1991 ...

  3. List of airlines of the United States - Wikipedia

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    New York–JFK New York–LaGuardia ... Horizon Air: QX QXE HORIZON ... Kuwait City: IBC Airways: II CSQ CHASQUI Ft. Lauderdale: 1991

  4. Gulf War oil spill - Wikipedia

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    The Gulf War oil spill, or the "Persian Gulf oil spill", was one of the largest oil spills in history, resulting from the Gulf War in 1991. [1] In January 1991, Iraqi forces allegedly began dumping oil into the Persian Gulf to stop a U.S. coalition-led water landing on their shores. Despite quite high initial estimates, the spill likely was ...

  5. 15810 Arawn - Wikipedia

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    15810 Arawn ( provisional designation 1994 JR1) is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) from the inner regions of the Kuiper belt, approximately 133 kilometres (83 mi) in diameter. It belongs to the plutinos, the most populous class of resonant TNOs. It was named after Arawn, the ruler of the underworld in Welsh mythology, and was discovered on 12 ...

  6. Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia

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    The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8 to 31 percent larger in volume than the previous largest, the ...

  7. New Horizons - Wikipedia

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    New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA 's New Frontiers program. [5] Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, [6] the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study ...

  8. Operation New Horizons - Wikipedia

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    Operation New Horizons. Operation New Horizons is a series of recurring U.S.-led operations in Central and South America and the Caribbean Islands. [1] It has had several names over the years, including New Horizons and Beyond the Horizons (as of 2008). U.S. Southern Command sponsors these operations and uses active duty, reserve and National ...

  9. Al Zour Refinery - Wikipedia

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    Kuwait National Petroleum Company. The Al Zour Refinery is an oil refinery in Southern Kuwait. It is the second-largest refinery in the Middle East. [1] [2] [3] It is an essential part of Kuwait Vision 2035. [4] [5] It is Kuwait's largest environmental friendly oil refinery. [6] [4]