Sentences with phrase «in oil tanker»

June 2017: Phillips 66 quietly initiates a permit revision process with local air district authorities to allow a 100 percent increase in oil tanker deliveries to its marine terminal at their SF Bay Rodeo refinery — site of the Sept. 2016 Yamuna Spirit oil spill.

Kinder Morgan has been granted permission to expand its pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast with a resulting increase in oil tanker traffic in coastal waters.

Bob Cowen has over 30 years of experience in the oil tanker and dry bulk shipping business, having been Chief Operating Officer of DHT's former parent company, OSG, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OceanFreight Inc., a dry bulk shipping company for which he led its successful IPO and fleet start - up.

Starring Chris Pine, Casey Affleck and Holliday Grainger, the Craig Gillespie - directed movie tells of the brave men who went on to rescue those involved in an Oil Tanker crash.

It is one of the best - documented alien invaders, arriving in oil tanker ballast water from the American Atlantic in 1982.

In New York state government news, a new law aims to protect the Hudson River amid a rise in oil tanker traffic and a legislative report calls for greater action on tick - borne illness.

Four - in - five British Columbians are concerned about the expected increase in oil tanker traffic at Kitimat and through the passage (83 %) and the risk of an oil spill (80 %) if the Enbridge Northern Gateway is authorized.

In Monday's speech, Chilton will reveal how the CFTC has found out Morgan Stanley has ownership stakes in oil tankers and a fuel distributor.

The body of water set to see a fivefold increase in oil tankers has been an industrial and transportation hub for more than a century.

With an almost seven-fold increase in oil tankers moving through Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea, an increase in groundings, accidents, incidents, leaks and oil spills would be inevitable.

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Stephen Harper lent support to the 1,200 - kilometre, $ 6 - billion pipeline that would carry more than 500,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Edmonton through the Rockies to Kitimat, B.C., where it could be transported by tanker to markets in the U.S. and Asia, including China.

The Eagle Ford crude oil tanker sails out of the the NuStar Energy dock at the Port of Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.

Potential U.S. sanctions on sales of light crude to Venezuela's oil company PDVSA would hamper its already weak refining network while leaving at least one tanker in limbo, according to a source from the state - run firm and Thomson Reuters data.

Notley achieved one of the most surprising electoral wins in Canadian history and one of the most profound for the progressive movement, but it came just as oil was reaching terminal price - drop velocity, shoaling the Alberta revenue tanker.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

Kinder Morgan also announced it would expand its Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, B.C., which would raise the number of oil tankers visiting Vancouver harbour from 80 per year to one a day.

«A DPRK - flagged tanker, SAM MA 2 owned by Korea Samma Shipping Company, conducted a ship - to - ship transfer of oil and fabricated documents in mid-October 2017, loading almost 1,600 metric tons of fuel oil in one transaction,» the United Nations said.

Imagine Google putting its image - recognition capabilities to work to identify and track all of the world's oil tankers, or count the number of cars in the parking lots of all the Walmarts in the United States, and making that information searchable via the Internet.

For comparison, shipping costs for a barrel of oil by pipeline and tanker from Edmonton to China were estimated at less than $ 8 / barrel in the TransMountain Pipeline Expansion application — equivalent to $ 1.36 / GJ.

Raitt's three - year timeline to fully dispose of older DOT - 111A tankers (and immediate phase - out of 5,000 of the most vulnerable cars) is going to be a difficult one to meet given the existing capacity for suppliers to build new tankers, as well as the desire of oil and gas companies to continue the exponential increases in oil - by - rail shipments into the future.

The market went up for old tankers, which were used simply to store oil in.

Stay tuned for updates on this developing story of how Vancouver, the «greenest city in the world,» may quietly become the main tanker route for oil sands crude bound for China.

The proposed 1,177 - kilometre Northern Gateway pipeline would deliver 525,000 barrels of Alberta oil to a tanker terminal in Kitimat, on the north coast of B.C..

The next big battle is in southern B.C., as citizens fight to stop Kinder Morgan's proposal to load more than 400 oil tankers a year in Burnaby.

Every few days, tankers freshly laden with crude from Alberta's oil sands squeeze through the shallow Second Narrows channel in Burrard Inlet, make their way through swift currents in the southern Gulf Islands and on towards offshore markets.

With the world awash in oil and prices half their year - ago levels, there's one market that's benefited: crude tanker ships.

They don't want the number of oil tankers in the Burrard inlet to go up sevenfold and they are backing the legal challenges coming from three of the B.C. coastal nations.

Add in stolid First Nations resistance to a proposed pipeline from the tar sands to Kitimat, and all these powerful pressures converge on the aptly named Second Narrows, which already has seen its oil tanker traffic rise precipitously in the past decade.

Kinder Morgan bears no liability for oil spills originating from a tanker that docks at its oil terminus, but this too should be changed, requiring the pipeline operator to share the liability as long as the tanker is in Canadian waters.

But what if the «oil» in these tankers doesn't float?

One of the largest accidental releases of oil in Alberta's history isn't a burst pipeline and it doesn't involve a train of tanker cars derailing into a river.

With regard to oil exports, the product from Alberta has to be moved across B.C. (more pipelines needed) and shipped in tankers (more port construction) to Asia.

A full - page ad in today's Globe and Mail shows a bleak black and white photo of a tanker floating in the midst of a vast oil slick.

Now there was much less oil coming out of Iran (and a year later, Iraq), but the tankers were still floating in the water.

Today is, not coincidentally, the 21st anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and on the heels of the ad came an announcement from the Coastal First Nations (an alliance of nine nations from the central coast to Haida Gwaii) declaring that»... in upholding our ancestral laws, rights and responsibilities... oil tankers carrying crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands will not be allowed to transit our lands and waters.»

There are reports that oil tankers are idling offshore in the Gulf, but they will likely have to wait a little while longer before they can dock.

After all how long can you keep a fleet of giant tankers sitting out in the ocean acting as storage for millions of barrels of oil, and there is more supply soon coming online.

BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson criticized the reference question, saying it acknowledges the province lacks the jurisdiction to stop the shipment of oil in tankers.

From the outraged hyperbole frothing from the lips of pro-Kinder Morgan supporters, you would think Premier John Horgan had flipped the Queen the bird with his campaign pledge to «use all the tools in the toolbox to stop» Kinder Morgan's controversial oil tanker - pipeline proposal.

Just as Albertans expected their political leaders to fight back when Trudeau - the - dad tried to force his National Energy Plan on them in 1980, British Columbians expect our premier to fight to protect our province from bullies from across the Rockies trying to bisect British Columbia with an unwanted pipeline to deliver toxic bitumen to Burnaby for export on oil tankers.

There's already significant shipping of oil in tankers on the coast and the government seems to be trying to stop the pipeline by tying it up in a potentially lengthy court process, Wilkinson said.

There is essentially no Alberta oil in California or Florida, so citizens there can boycott until their heart's content — they can't buy it anyway as all their oil is supplied by tankers from the Middle East, Venezuela, etc..

To think that it would not, and that it would instead be exported, you'd have to imagine a tanker floating in to port laden with heavy oil, unloading its cargo, re-loading with Canadian heavy, and sailing out again.

A worker works on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker at a port of the China National Offshore Oil Co (CNOOC) in Tianjin, China November 6, 2017.

This work included representing two First Nations in a successful legal challenge to the federal government's approval of Northern Gateway, as well as advocating for a strong federal oil tanker ban law on BC's north coast.

Oil stored in tankers, hard to track, declined significantly.

An oil tanker moving in Burrard Inlet.

In the case of offshore driller Noble Corp. and oil tanker operator Teekay Tankers, supply and demand played a big role, driving down prices for their services while increasing competition for the available work.

The Trans Mountain pipeline forks at Abbotsford, with a spur running south to Cherry Point refineries in northwest Washington, where tankers already bring oil from Alaska.

KRG says independent tanker loadings to begin The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has announced that it will market crude from oil fields under its control sent autonomously of Iraq's central government to the Turkish port of Ceyhan in a pipeline it claims as its own, with the first shipment up for sale before the end of January.On the KRG's website late on Jan. 8, the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) gave «public notice of the commencement of the sale of its first shipment of crude oil exported via Kurdistan Region's new...