Sentences with phrase «large oil spills»

Matt's extensive experience includes representing an international drilling contractor and an oil pipeline company in connection with large oil spills, an oil and natural gas company in control of well claims, and an oil and gas company in construction disputes arising out of the sale of crude heaters for a refinery modernization project.

Although numerous efforts are put into cleaning up large oil spills, only 15 to 25 % of the oil can be effectively removed by mechanical methods.

However, in what will be a controversial statement, they found that, «a large oil spill would not cause permanent, widespread damage to the environment.»

A worker on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is claiming he told BP about a faulty piece of safety equipment weeks before the rig explosion that has led to the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

In Brooklyn, one of the nation's largest oil spills in an almost century - old tank site originally owned by Standard Oil, has not yet been fully dealt with.

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill did $ 17.2 billion in damage to the natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists recently found after a six - year study of the impact of the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

Boufadel provided technical analyses and remedial strategies in response to the two largest oil spills in U.S. history, the Deepwater Horizon and Exxon Valdez spills.

It was the largest oil spill in United States waters by that time, and now ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills.

I don't think anybody here has forgotten what happened last year, where we had to deal with the largest oil spill in [our] history.

This oil spill would eventually impact over 1,100 miles of Alaska's coastline, making the Exxon Valdez the largest oil spill to date in U.S. waters.

1990: The first climate - related shareholder resolution at Exxon came a year after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, creating what was then the nation's largest oil spill and most notorious human - caused environmental disaster.

The shutdown is the latest in a string of embarrassments for BP, which has suffered from a host of safety, environmental and regulatory problems in recent months, including a large oil spill at Prudhoe Bay earlier this year [see previous post].

«Largest Oil Spills Affecting U.S. Waters since 1969.»

Two decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill devastated a vast stretch of the Alaskan coast, governments and industry in the Arctic would be unable to effectively manage a large oil spill, according to a new report by World...

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.

The Gulf of Mexico spill is more than 18 times the size of Alaska's Exxon Valdez, previously the nation's largest oil spill.

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.»

For more information on the effects of last year's spill and to further consider what is happening in the Gulf today, watch this 4 minute video on the science of last year's spill, where one year after the largest oil spill in the history of the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are trying to determine the long - term ecological effects.

Think Exxon Valdez, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, where the skipper was found to have consumed alcohol and left the bridge.)

Not exact matches

Adding to their fury is the spill from the Keystone pipeline just last week, which saw more than 200,000 barrels of oil spill from the pipeline in South Dakota, shuttering a large section of the conduit for days.

While its easy to get caught up in all the negativity surrounding the company regarding lawsuits over their oil spill, the company is still generating large profits and remains committed to steadily increasing their dividend.

The possibility of an oil spill off the coast of Metro Vancouver looms large in the minds of B.C. residents, saying by a margin of five - to - one that it is the single biggest concern they have about the Trans Mountain project.

Clean Harbors is the North American leader in providing response services for environmental emergencies of any scale on land or water — from the cleanup and removal of a single mercury bottle to a large - scale multiphase containment and cleanup of a coastal oil spill.

A federal court deal this week ended the latest legal skirmish resulting from what the Environmental Protection Agency describes as the costliest inland oil spill in U.S. history — and one of the largest.

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

In January 2004, Riverkeeper initiated a citizen suit against two of the world's largest oil companies for the largest urban oil spill — right in the heart of New York City.

The Cuomo administration must recognize the scope of this threat to our state from this company, which was responsible for the largest oil field spills in North Dakota's history just last month, involving 1 million gallons of hazardous brine.

That made the spill one of the 20 largest onshore oil or petroleum product spills since 2010.

OHMSETT, a government facility, hosts the largest outdoor saltwater wave tank in North America and is the United States» main testing facility for oil - spill remediation equipment.

Eventually, they hope the technology can be applied to manufacture materials in large scale to accommodate massive oil spills in the ocean.

The leak continued until 15 July, releasing about 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf, the largest accidental marine oil spill in history.

«I could easily imagine medusoids used in large numbers to clean up oil spills in a similar manner to the way a jellyfish filters out its food,» he adds.

According to the unit's postmortem on the spill, the national contingency plan for cleaning up spills would not have coped if large quantities of the tanker's cargo of crude oil had come ashore.

In the event, although this was the world's eleventh largest spill, less than 1 per cent of the oil reached shore.

«There is a good chance that the large circulation of Hurricane Alex contributed to westward advection of some of the tar balls related to the oil spill toward Louisiana and Texas,» Marks says.

Yet because of the difficulty in collecting samples from so far below the ocean surface, and because of the large area that was impacted by the spill, a number of gaps in understanding the fate of the oil over time remained.

Enbridge Energy Partners, the U.S. unit of Canada's largest pipeline company Enbridge Inc received an order from the EPA in March requiring more containment and recovery of oil from the spill.

En masse, they form a mechanical multitude an order of magnitude larger than any robot swarm ever built — a possible precursor to future robot work squads choreographed for chores such as cleaning up oil spills.

Using data of crude oil transported out of North Dakota in 2014, Muller says the team found «that air pollution and greenhouse gas costs of shipping crude oil by rail are much larger than spill and accident costs.»

More than 20,000 barrels of heavy Canadian crude oil gushed into the Kalamazoo River system after multiple small corrosion - fatigue cracks caused the rupture of Line 6B in July 2010, the largest onshore oil spill in U.S. history.

As investigators with the commission state: «The spill presented an opportunity for state and parish officials to facilitate construction of a large - scale, temporary oil spill response measure whose purpose might, they believed, «pivot» to permanent restoration of Louisiana's barrier islands - with BP footing the bill.»

The only larger spill occurred during the 1991 Gulf War, when Iraq dumped — deliberately — up to 462 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf.

Among the findings was that dispersants were able to eliminate about 21 percent the oil that floated on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico after the spill, but at the cost of spreading the remaining oil over a 49 percent larger area.

The spill, which also included by an unknown quantity of crude oil, is by far the largest spill of its kind in the state's history, officials said

As eagerness to explore the Arctic's oil and gas resources grows, the threat of a major Arctic oil spill looms ever larger — and the United States has a lot of work to do to prepare for that inevitability, says a new report from the National Research Council.

The Sundarbans, part of the world's largest mangrove forest and stretching across India and Bangladesh, have been tarnished by a 350,000 - liter oil spill.

As eagerness to explore the Arctic's oil and gas resources grows, the threat of a major Arctic oil spill looms ever larger — and the United States has a lot of work to do to prepare for that inevitability, a panel convened by the National Research Council (NRC) declares in a report released today.

Deep - sea oil exploration will probably release future spills, Solomon says, and global warming could destabilize large undersea deposits of frozen methane, leading to local ocean acidification or oxygen depletion (SN 7/31/2010).

More than half a decade ago, a BP - operated oil rig spilled 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, marking the largest spill of its kind in history and an environmental disaster of epic proportions.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 was the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, and an ecological disaster.