In Valdez, the Valdez Marine Terminal is an oil port located at the southern end of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. There are 14 active aboveground crude oil storage tanks at the terminal, and an average of three to five oil tankers depart from the terminal each week. Since the pipeline became operational in 1976, more than 15,000 tankers full of oil have left the terminal.[1]
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the Valdez Marine Terminal were featured in Waves of Devastation.
It was introduced in 2 days after people when the port of Valdez in Alaska is eerily quiet. In the time of humans, tankers came here to fill up the oil coming from the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Without people, electricity runs out causing the pipeline to stop working, but the gurgling sound of moving liquid can still be heard along the harbor. The oil came from the storage tank several hundred feet in elevation above the waterline travels to one of the tankers below and the area is where the river of oil will break free. Tom Miesner stated that if the ship were loading, then it could continue to load the tank's gravity feed down to the ship, potentially causing one of the tanks on the ship to overflow.
This cause the oil pipe to bursts and spill and millions of gallons of oil drain into the harbor. The tens of thousands of birds and marine mammals near Valdez have witnessed this before in 1989 were the Exxon Valdez in a few miles off shore struck Prince William Sound causing an oil spill. While the disaster cause 11 million gallons spilled, the overflowing tanker in Valdez drowns the harbor with twice as much oil.