Sentences with phrase «gallons of oil pouring»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

Pouring millions of gallons of oil and dispersants into an area already greatly stressed by upstream pollution, atmospheric fall - out, fifty years of industrial activity (44,000 wells, 33,000 miles of pipelines), shoreline trauma, and ecosystem damage by decades of large - scale fishing is a recipe for short and long - term disaster.

In 2010, a single pipeline spill poured 1,000,000 gallons of toxic bitumen crude oil into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.

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.

Friday, Reuters reported that the March 2 oil spill is worse than previously reported and that «up to 267,000 gallons (6,357 barrels) of crude oil poured out of a pipeline at the Prudhoe Bay field [not far from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge], making it the largest oil spill ever recorded on the state's North Slope.»