50,000 barrels / day x 120 days x 42 gallons / barrel = 252 million
gallons of oil released.
Not exact matches
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.
With fracking, millions
of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure deep into the earth, fracturing hard rock to
release oil and gas.
The Gulf
of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it's still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after BP's offshore drilling rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, eventually
releasing 205.8 million
gallons of oil into the water column.
Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions
of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and
release natural gas and
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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This spill ran from June 1979 to March 1980 (9 months) and
released 140 million
gallons of oil.
Millions
of gallons of pressurized water, sand, and chemicals are then used to create fissures in the rock and
release oil, which is pumped out.
Burning a
gallon of gas from tar sands
releases as much as 37 percent more carbon pollution than burning a
gallon of gas from conventional
oil.
Burn 1,000
gallons of fuel
oil for heat
releases 22.4 pounds
of carbon dioxide per
gallon according to the EIA or 10.15 metric tons
of carbon dioxide a year.
The Exxon Valdez
oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound
released 10.8 million
gallons of oil — or almost 250,000 barrels
of oil.
News Articles Milwaukee Journal - Sentinel by Lee Bergquist February 16, 2007 The accident is one
of two resulting in the
release of at least 176,000
gallons of Canadian crude
oil in northern Wisconsin since the beginning
of the year.
And there have already been several big dilbit spills, such as the one from the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota that
released 200,000
gallons of oil in November
of this year, or the catastrophic 2010 spill in Michigan, which
released up to 1 million
gallons into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.
According to several news reports (for example, by the Times Picayune, Sept. 9), the Associated Press collected raw data from state regulatory agencies and other sources and performed an analysis which revealed that more than 30 fuel and chemical storage tanks at facilities in the region collapsed or otherwise failed during Hurricane Harvey,
releasing more than 600,000
gallons of crude
oil, gasoline, and other fuels and chemicals.
The accident is one
of two resulting in the
release of at least 176,000
gallons of Canadian crude
oil in northern Wisconsin since the beginning
of the year.
In 1969, an
oil spill off the coast
of Santa Barbara, California
released a few million
gallons of oil into marine ecosystems — eight months later, it was among the primary catalysts for the biggest pro-environmental movement in the nation's history, starting with the first Earth Day.
Had this been the Keystone XL pipeline, which has a much higher carrying capacity, the spill would have
released 1,000,000
gallons of oil.
A pipeline owned by Paramount Resources Ltd.
released an estimated 100,000 liters (approximately 26,000
gallons)
of crude
oil and 190,000 liters (approximately 50,000
gallons)
of produced water near Zama City, in northwest Alberta, according to an April 11 incident report filed with the Alberta Energy Regulator.
Tuesday's
release of proposed rules for
oil shale exploration across the Rocky Mountain West by the Bureau
of Land Management was merely another shot across the bow in the political blame game over $ 4 - per -
gallon gas.