Sentences with phrase «after the oil tanker»

A week after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989, chemist Jeff Short of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration visited the site.

More than five years after the oil tanker Exxon Valdez hit a reef off the coast of Alaska, the people who claim they were harmed by the massive oil spill are finally having their day — or rather, their months — in court.

He sent me a link to an article he wrote for the then fledgling BBC News website back in 1999, a few years after the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground on the coast of Wales, spilling more than 72,000 tonnes of crude along a coastline that's a favourite for ramblers and nature enthusiasts, not to mention the fishing grounds.

Not exact matches

The new prime minister banned oil tankers off the northern coast of British Columbia just nine days after assuming office.

After wandering the seas for a month and a half, the same tanker docked at a port on the heel of Italy's boot and offloaded what the ship's documents claimed was Greek olive oil.

After all how long can you keep a fleet of giant tankers sitting out in the ocean acting as storage for millions of barrels of oil, and there is more supply soon coming online.

The Finest Hours is a true story adventure film about a daring rescue off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952 that happened after a massive storm destroyed two oil tankers.

After several denials by the Defence Headquarters that a recently hijacked oil tanker, MT Leon Dias was not abducted by alleged pro-Biafra militants and in Nigerian waters, the Defence Headquarters has warned that any group of persons or interests who indulge in hijacking or piracy against -LSB-...]

A man in Nigeria's oil capital, Port Harcourt in the south of the country, looks on at an oil tanker carrying fuel that exploded after an accident.

After several denials by the Defence Headquarters that a recently hijacked oil tanker, MT Leon Dias was not abducted by alleged pro-Biafra militants and in Nigerian waters, the Defence Headquarters has warned that any group of persons or interests who indulge in hijacking or piracy against any merchant vessel off the coast of Nigeria would be treated as criminals and saboteurs.

In previous research he found that Vibrio became the dominant type of marine bacteria off the south - eastern US as oil tanker traffic increased after the 1970s.

Methane hydrates, after all, were largely responsible for corrupting the containment dome intended to stop the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill rising from the ocean bottom; the viscous mixture clogged the dome and a redirection pipe intended to take leaking oil to a tanker waiting above.

Next year, after Norsepower installs rotor sails on an oil tanker and a passenger cruise ship, «we'll have all of the main ship types covered,» Riski says.

She points out what happened after the Exxon Valdez tragedy, where an oil tanker caused a major oil spill along the coast of Alaska in 1989.

The study, which appears in the Annals of Internal Medicine, included 501 fishermen who helped clean up spilled oil after the tanker Prestige sank off the coast of Spain in November 2002.

It tells the true story of the Pendleton rescue mission attempt in 1952 by Coast Guard ships after two oil tankers were split apart by a nor» easter storm.

After the Exxon Valdez spill, all sorts of maritime regulations were instituted requiring all new tankers to be double hull after 2006 because they are less likely to spillAfter the Exxon Valdez spill, all sorts of maritime regulations were instituted requiring all new tankers to be double hull after 2006 because they are less likely to spillafter 2006 because they are less likely to spill oil.

After graduating from Stuyvesant High School at 16, he had a variety of jobs — he worked on an oil tanker, on docks, and unloading railroad cars.

1990: The first climate - related shareholder resolution at Exxon came a year after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, creating what was then the nation's largest oil spill and most notorious human - caused environmental disaster.

The spill, estimated to be roughly 4,000 barrels (or 168,000 gallons), began after a tanker vessel carrying heavy fuel oil collided with a cargo ship in Galveston Bay, an estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico.

Last month, five oil field workers were involved in an explosive accident after their van collided with an oil tanker truck.