Exxon Valdez Valdez" appeared in the animated comedy "American Dad!" in the episode "You Debt Your Life". Roger is getting the captain of the ship drunk and the ship is seen crashing into an iceberg, which references the oil spill in Alaska. "Exxon Valdez" can be seen at 1:49 of the Scorpions "Wind Of Change" music video The Futurama episode "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" is a parody of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, with the dark matter tanker named the "Juan Valdez". The Graf Orlock song: "Nursing a Hangover" from their 2016 LP Crimetraveler is a reference to the incident. Exxon Valdez
History of the oil tanker the newly discovered oil fields in Texas — such as Spindletop — and Oklahoma, which gave opportunities for new oil companies as Gulf Oil and Texas Fuel Company, later Texaco. Avoiding the use of Standard Oil's pipe line system, they started using tankers to get their oil to the East Coast. In combination with the oil fields discovered in Mexico and Venezuela, this caused a rise in the demand for tankers, which gave opportunities for the first independents, such as the Norwegian Wilh. Wilhelmsen, that launched its first tanker in 1913. The fleet oiler , launched on April 17, 1915,