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
Oil tanker instrument, Shell consulted the "London Tanker Brokers’ Panel (LTBP)". At first, they divided the groups as "General Purpose" for tankers under ; "Medium Range" for ships between 25,000 and and "Large Range" for the then-enormous ships that were larger than . The ships became larger during the 1970s, which prompted rescaling. The system was developed for tax reasons as the tax authorities wanted evidence that the internal billing records were correct. Before the New York Mercantile Exchange started trading crude oil futures in 1983, it was difficult to determine the exact price of oil, which could change with every contract.