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- NATION, Page 28American NotesCALIFORNIAAdios, Exxon Valdez
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- The world's most notorious oil tanker will have a new name
- when she returns to service in August, and she will not be
- going back to Valdez, Alaska, where her grounding in March 1989
- caused the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. Instead, the
- Exxon Mediterranean, nee Exxon Valdez, will be hauling crude
- oil from Turkey and Egypt to France and Italy. The tanker will
- have a new $30 million bottom and a new American crew.
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- Taking command when sea trials get under way next week will
- be Michael Stalzer. He used to alternate with former skipper
- Joseph Hazelwood. The ship's new assignment has nothing to do
- with blotting out memories of the spill, explained Gus Elmer,
- president of Exxon Shipping Co. Production from Alaskan oil
- fields continues to decline, and there is no longer any need
- for the 987-ft. tanker on the West Coast.
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