Sentences with phrase «bunker fuel oil»

In November 2007, the container ship Cosco Busan released 54,000 gallons of bunker fuel oil into San Francisco Bay.

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Traditionally the industry has been a heavy user of fossil fuels, primarily oil, the price of which has fluctuated from under $ 15 a barrel 20 years ago to peaks of $ 90 to over $ 100 now, making fossil fuels such as bunker oil vastly more expensive.

The oil vapor, meanwhile, is condensed into a liquid fuel, which is then further upgraded and processed to make a green fuel similar to the bunker fuel that is used in cargo ship engines and industrial boilers, for example, except it lacks the pollution - causing sulfur common to the bunker fuel refined from petroleum.

It lists some 1700 of these wrecks, their oil carried either as cargo or as bunker fuel.

Regardless of whether they were carrying oil as cargo, these ships all contain «bunker fuel», a heavy oil that can devastate marine life and fisheries.

As shipping increases, so will emissions from heavy fuel oil — known as bunker fuel — that powers most of the region's ships.

At Port Arthur what typically happens to our crude — because it's somewhere between 11 and 13 degree oil — is it goes straight into bunker fuel for ships.

According to Friends of the Earth, «The bunker fuel spills by the Hanjin container ship that hit a bridge in San Francisco Bay on Nov. 7 and the Russian oil tanker that broke in half during a storm in the Black Sea on Nov. 11 call attention to the harm caused by bunker fuel when it is spilled.

How would a carbon tax on maritime fuel (primarily residual fuel oil, a / k / a bunker fuel) spur further efficiency and innovation?

Same thing for imported oil that's shipped thousands of miles from foreign countries, burning dirty bunker fuel and diesel fuel, a major cause of black carbon soot.

These new blends are likely to cost more initially than the «heavy fuel oil» bunkers (fuel) used by the majority of ships today.

The proven health problems relating to the burning of fossil fuels (especially coal, bunkering oil used for shipping, and diesel oil) are far worse than any that are claimed to be caused by wind turbines.

Obviously there should also be no new other fossil fuel plants, and coal and bunker oil should be shut down in a decade or so.