Sentences with phrase «from oil seeping»

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You do not need any oil to sauté this mixture since the water from the onions and other veggies will seep out and will help cook the rest of the vegetables.

The peninsula's porous limestone surface allows contaminants from golf course herbicides and motor oil from roads to seep into the cave systems, causing further contamination.

About 0.6 kilograms of methane emerge each second in the summer, Mumma said, which is comparable to the emissions from a natural oil seep near Santa Barbara, California.

Seeps from which gas and oil escape were formative to many ancient cultures and societies.

The oil itself does not appear to help the phytoplankton, but the low concentration of oil found above natural seeps isn't killing them, and turbulence from the rising oil and gas bubbles is bringing up deep - water nutrients that phytoplankton need to grow, according to a new study appearing in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience.

An oil slick from a natural seep lasts between one and seven days and reaches between 1 and 100 square kilometers.

In total, 4.3 million barrels were released into the Gulf from the oil spill versus an annual release of 160,000 to 600,000 barrels per year from naturally occurring seeps, according to the new results.

Analysis of samples from the outcrop convinced the researchers that the «coal» was in fact a fossilized oil seep dating to the late Paleocene / early Eocene.

From normal to oil - prone complexions, each micro-powder seeps in and absorbs excess oils, while ultimately reducing the size of pores.

Cause: In affected vehicles, engine oil from the vacuum pump may seep into the brake booster, damaging a component within the brake booster.

He had reliable information — from a Spaniard who knew a cattle - herder who knew the Venezuelan president personally — that more oil seeps had been discovered and that further concessions would soon be granted.

The Coal Oil Point seep field (COP) in the Santa Barbara Channel offshore from Goleta, California, is a marine petroleum seep area of about three square kilometres, within the Offshore South Ellwood Oil Field and stretching from the coastline southward more than three kilometers (1.9 mi).

Oil stains seep through the floors, spectral hints from its industrial past (at the Pollock - Krasner House in East Hampton, the floor is splashed with the artists» paint drippings).

July 19, 9:50 a.m. Updated Lest residents around the Gulf of Mexico rest too easy after the tenth effort by BP to seal its gushing seabed well seemed to work, the federal government Sunday night ordered the company to be prepared to open the valves on its well cap if reports of oil and gas seeping from the seabed nearby were confirmed.

As Bill Broad reported in The Times in June, the gulf seabed is home to communities of organisms that thrive on petrochemical seeps and scientists are split on whether deep drifting oil from the Macondo well poses a significant environmental risk.

And this latest development clearly signals why: Thad Allen, the incident commander of Gulf operations, wrote a letter to BP regarding concerns that oil may now be seeping out of a new leak some ways away from the recently capped well head.

One we're watching: Reports are emerging that what was initially reported as a natural oil seep off the coast of Brazil might be coming from a Chevron appraisal well instead.

Methane has also been seeping from marshes, bubbling out of oceans, leaking from coal seams and oil seeps and being released in huge quantities from volcanoes.

Good news for BP Plc. and other oil, coal and chemical companies seeped out last week from New Orleans, barely noticed in the blanket coverage of the as - yet uncontrolled oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

Generally those doors were coated with a lacquer or oil based coating... no amount of latex primer would ever stop tannin stains and marks from seeping through.