Sentences with phrase «gallon of oil»

The pleading of the Spirit intensifies as leaky tankers spew millions of gallons of oil into ocean waters.

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, with much of it entering the deep ocean.

With thousands of gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico everyday, this undeniable

Today, his wholesale diesel and gasoline company, Hightowers Petroleum, has 85 employees and sells 140 million gallons of oil per year.

The devices can separate 200 gallons of oil from water a minute, according to The New York Times.

In this case, the pipeline expansion was further complicated by the fact that a related Enbridge pipeline involved in oil imports from Canada spilled nearly one million gallons of oil in Marshall, Mich., in July 2010 after tape intended to prevent corrosion on the pipeline failed.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says part of the Indian Point nuclear power plant remains offline after a transformer fire that has created another problem: potentially thousands of gallons of oil leaking into the Hudson River.

The effectiveness of BP's online outreach and its overall $ 50 million PR blitz is another question entirely, since it's up against the reality (and the imagery) of millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico (plus, it's up against its own CEO's big mouth).

I can get about 10 - 15 batches of fried food before I clean it out and put fresh oil in it — Tony just found 1.5 gallons of oil for $ 8 at Sam's Club!

Nobody who has noticed the millions of gallons of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico courtesy of BP will be stumped by the question implied in the title of this book.

«With at least 1.5 million gallons of oil still spewing into the Gulf every day, Senate Republicans plotted with BP's chief lobbying firm in Albany and voted to squash a bill that will help over 12 million New Yorkers living in polluted air.»

The large - scale paintings (one red, one black, one yellow) were made by applying images and gestural marks to Plexiglas then covering them with gallons of oil paint.

As a certified olive - oil distributor, Caltech harvests on - campus olive trees to produce up to 150 gallons of oil annually.

Tens of millions of gallons of that oil passes through New York state on its way to the Port of Albany.

When the Deepwater Horizon drilling pipe blew out seven years ago, beginning the worst oil spill in U.S. history, those in charge of the recovery discovered a new wrinkle: the millions of gallons of oil bubbling from the sea floor weren't all collecting on the surface where it could be skimmed or burned.

For this flight, UOP transformed gallons of oil derived from the seeds of the Jatropha plant — an African weedy shrub that can be grown on land that is not being used for food production — provided by Terasol Energy.

And that is dwarfed by the willful spill of oil by Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who dumped roughly one billion gallons of oil during the 1991 Gulf War, at least a quarter of it into the Arabian Gulf.

That would make BP's Gulf spill already worse than the infamous 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which discharged roughly 11 million gallons of oil off Alaska.

Camelina can grow on poorer quality farmland, needs little irrigation or fertilizer, and produces seeds that can provide gallons of oil, Durrett said.

In the wake of 1989's massive Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound, when 11 million gallons of oil befouled some 1,300 miles of formerly pristine and wildlife - rich coastline, much has been done to prevent future spills of such magnitude.

It has also reduced more than 430,000 gallons of oil consumed.

50,000 barrels / day x 120 days x 42 gallons / barrel = 252 million gallons of oil released.

The homepage features a running tally of the number of trees and the number of gallons of oil saved collectively through the recycling program (51,161 and 3,417,576 respectively at time of publication).

«Three gallons of oil refined and burned provides 400,000 BTU... Once.

At the time, the spill was estimated to be up to 101,000 gallons of oil spanning over nine miles along the Santa Barbara County coastline.

This May in California, well over one hundred thousand gallons of oil found its way into the ocean due to the rupture of an 11 - mile - long corroded pipeline.

Back in 2011, the giant Chevron corporation was found guilty of illegally dumping billions of gallons of oil waste into the Ecuadorian rainforest in what has been described as the Amazon's «Chernobyl» and the worst case of oil pollution on the planet.

More than 840,000 gallons of oil flowed down Talmadge Creek through 38 miles of the Kalamazoo River... More»

Fast forward to 2010, where we're still in the midst of the biggest oil catastrophe in our history, with an incomparable 100 - 180 million gallons of oil fouling the water.

He is still illegally exempting dangerous offshore oil drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico from all environmental review as millions of gallons of oil gush into the ocean.

The Coast Guard estimates that it is collecting 42,000 gallons of oil residue per day.

A federal study of sea otters in Prince William Sound, Alaska, where the Exxon Valdez supertanker spilled around 30,000,000 gallons of oil about 25 years ago (the second largest spill after the Deepwater Horizon disaster) has concluded that the otters have returned to pre-spill numbers.

Really, that's an incomprehensibly vast amount — can you honestly visualize what 39 million gallons of oil looks like?

From 1990 to 2011, more than 110 million gallons of oil spilled from U.S. pipelines.

A Plains All American pipeline spilled 10,000 gallons of oil in Los Angeles.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — TransCanada today announced that an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil leaked from the Keystone pipeline near northeastern South Dakota.

Kimes estimated «if everything goes well» the harvest would produce about 1,500 pounds of seed, or about 60 gallons of oil per acre.

252 million divided by 660 quadrillion is one gallon of oil for every 2.6 billion gallons of water in the Gulf of Mexico.

For eighty - seven days in 2010, 210 million gallons of oil from wells below the Deepwater Horizon poured into the Gulf of Mexico.

By the easiest measure — volume of oil spilled — PeMex's Ixtoc I oil well was far worse than the Deepwater Horizon well: 140 million gallons of oil poured out of the Mexican well, compared to the estimated 94.2 million gallons that could escape from the well near Louisiana by mid-August, when a relief well is expected to be complete.

Now that the disaster's successor has been anointed, of course, we hear all about how the Valdez's impacts have lasted 20 years: the 20,000 gallons of oil still believed to litter the shoreline, the problems with toxicity in fish populations, and so on.

As millions of gallons of oil spew out of the Gulf, and much of it threatening to make landfall on his state, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has called for... more offshore drilling.

This environmental disaster movie documents the tragedy when the Exxon Valdez dumped 11 million gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound.

DiNapoli said last week he was mulling a possible suit against BP for its mismanagement of the well that is still spewing thousands of gallons of oil into the gulf every day.

Canadian CEOs think both BP and the White House failed in their response to the devastating oil spill that continues to pour 800,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico every day.

Those and four dozen more sordid facts of 9 - to - 5 life have been collected in 50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth (EarthWorks Press, Berkeley, Calif., 1991), a slender paperback enumerating the number of trees, gallons of oil, cubic yards of ozone, and so on, that industry squanders.

The Deepwater Horizon spill released 3 million gallons of oil into the Gulf, which eventually covered over 1,300 miles of coastline in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, taking a severe environmental and economic toll on the region.

To date, the EPA reports recovering 1,146,803 gallons of oil — 35 per cent more than the volume Enbridge reported was spilled.