Sentences with phrase «gallons of oil about»

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.

Not exact matches

You'll also need about 3 gallons of peanut, canola, or sunflower oil.

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!

Overall, the price tag of the pipeline, which would carry 200,000 gallons of crude oil from Albany to refineries in Linden, N.J. and finished petroleum products the other way, is estimated at about $ 550 million.

... That leak in the Keystone Pipeline spilled 5,000 barrels of crude oil — about 210,000 gallons, according to TransCanada, the pipeline's owner.

When he last spoke about rising fuel costs throughout New York in April, the average price for a gallon of regular gas was $ 4.15, according to data provided by the Oil Price Information -LSB-...]

But he said the United States has the potential to produce about 1 billion gallons of camelina oil a year in areas as diverse as Georgia and New Mexico.

They should be about 30 cents per gallon, he said, to account for the environmental damage caused by the burning of oil products, he said.

I buy it by the five gallon bucket and I'm certainly convinced of its quality, but it was great to read about how their company was formed and all the effort they put into ensuring the most high quality coconut oil available.

For example, I keep a 5 gallon bucket of coconut oil in my garage which regularly gets over 100 F / 28 C during summer days, and it keeps perfectly for months on end (it usually takes me about 18 months to use the whole bucket).

Though they carry lots of different products, one really great thing about their gold label coconut oil is that, because it is hand made (thousands of gallons made by hand!)

by Walter Chaw Between preaching its preach about not being pigeonholed and the importance of living life in the moment, Raja Gosnell's The Smurfs misses no opportunity to talk about the superficiality of Smurfette (voice of Katy Perry) discovering her secret shopping bug; Gargamel (Hank Azaria) turning an «old lady» into a balloon - chested hottie; and human hero Patrick (Neil Patrick Harris) helping his harridan cosmetics boss Odile (Sofia Vergara) sell gallons of snake oil to the Vanity Smurfs (voice of John Oliver) of the world.

Since the invasion, the price of a barrel of oil has more than doubled, and prices at the gas pump have increased about 30 cents per gallon, according to the American Automobile Association.

It is important to note, however, that crude oil accounts for only about 50 % of the cost of a gallon of gasoline.

While the risk to coasts is likely to quickly recede, biologists have expressed strong concerns about the use of nearly 2 million gallons of chemical dispersants that don't destroy surface slicks, but simply cause the oil to disperse and sink (not to mention the dispersants sprayed at the point where oil gushed from the seabed a mile down).

In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.

There are 42 gallons of crude oil in a barrel so 11 million gallons would equal about 261,904 barrels.

The report said an estimated 5,000 barrels — 210,000 gallons, or enough to fill about a third of an Olympic - sized swimming pool — of heavy crude oil poured from the ruptured pipeline.

This would open the market to ethanol that could be produced from the «420 million tons of biomass easily harvestable in the U.S.» Sharp also said that the ethanol generated from that biomass could replace at least half — about 45 billion gallons — of the oil the U.S. imports annually.

Requiring about 5 million gallons of fluid (mostly water) per well, it's clear that the water intensity of Marcellus Shale gas is more significant than first thought and likely compels more oversight of the oil and gas industry and its water use.

The good news is that there is nothing like a $ 3 gallon of gasoline to get everyone thinking about new and creative ways to make transportation more affordable, less polluting, and less susceptible to the vagaries of the world oil market.

The energy used each year by an average family (four people) with an electric water heater is roughly equal to the energy used by a medium - sized automobile driven 12,000 miles a year at an average fuel efficiency of 22 miles per gallon (about 11 barrels of oil).

By his estimates the sheen on the water represented about 47,000 gallons of oil.

That is about 60 cents per gallon of oil.

Because Toyota has pioneered the very hybrid engine technology that can help rescue not only our economy from its oil addiction (how about 500 miles per gallon of gasoline?)

On a lifetime basis, a gallon of gasoline made from tar sands produces about 15 % more carbon dioxide emissions than one made from conventional oil.

More about oil spills: Gulf Oil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife (Slideshow) One Day After 462,000 - Gallon Spill in Texas, Only 10 % of Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brookoil spills: Gulf Oil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife (Slideshow) One Day After 462,000 - Gallon Spill in Texas, Only 10 % of Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spill: The Black and Oily Demise of Wildlife (Slideshow) One Day After 462,000 - Gallon Spill in Texas, Only 10 % of Oil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Cleaned Up One More Reason Oil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spills Are Bad: Surface Cleanup can Make it Worse for Fish Below Hundreds of Birds Killed in Oil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spill on Russia's Sakhalin Island Hurricane Ike, Missing Drill Rig, And Oil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spills: It's the System That Leaks California Combats Oil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spills: New Bills Make Their Way Onto the Governator's Desk Touring an Oil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in BrookOil Spill Twice the Size of Exxon Valdez — in Brooklyn

You may have missed it, but about two months ago Australia experienced one of its largest oil spills, when a ship owned by Swire Shipping spilled about 70,000 gallons of oil and 620 tonnes of fertilizer in the vicinity of Moreton Island.

It's been over 20 years since the Exxon Valdez ran into a reef and spilled nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, but according to new research published in Nature Geoscience about 20,000 gallons remain trapped in the gravel beaches of Alaska.

There's good reason to be concerned about potential leaks, since Enbridge is responsible for spilling more than 1 million gallons of tar sands oil into Michigan's Kalamazoo River, in what became the worst tar sands leak in US history.

On Thursday, I wrote about the 30,000 gallons of Canadian oil that spilled in Minnesota following a train derailment and noted the differences in oil spills caused by train accidents versus oil pipelines.