Video: U.S. to suspend offshore drilling in Arctic Ocean Video: BP begins "top kill" operation to plug oil leak by Rob Welham ? ?The oil slick off the coast of Mexico Gulf is shown in this photo shot by NASA satellite on May 24, 2010. (Photo: CRIonline) BEIJING, May 28 (Xinhuanet) -- The amount of oil that has spilled from BP's blown-out Gulf of Mexico well has exceeded the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. And according to findings released Thursday from a US government panel, the oil could be flowing at a rate nearly four times BP's recent estimates. The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989
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