Sentences with phrase «of fuel oil»

Big ships can use more than 100 metric tons (110 tons) of fuel oil per day and can take two weeks or more to traverse oceans.

But both ships use a heavy grade of fuel oil that would do serious environmental damage to the region if there were a large spill.

Update: Thursday, November 8, 2007 2:40 p.m. PST At 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 7, an outbound container ship, the Cosco Busan, struck a pier of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, spilling approximately 58,000 gallons of fuel oil into San Francisco Bay.

«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.

Back in the 1980s, demand was destroyed structurally (especially the displacement of fuel oil in electricity generation and space heating) and permanent efficiency gains were baked in.

Buildings contribute 80 percent of all the greenhouse gas emissions in New York City mainly as a result of their associated electricity consumption, burning of fuel oil or natural gas to provide heat in the cold months and burning of non-electric cooking fuels such as gas.

Activity data can be for example tonnes of fuel oil used by an industry, while the emission factor expresses the emission of a component in proportion to the activity (for example tonnes of SO 2 / tonne fuel oil).

We've stopped burning liquid fuels to generate electricity, injected powdered coal instead of fuel oil into blast furnaces, raised the corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE), lowered the kerosene consumption of jet engines, and improved the efficiency of thousands of industrial processes.

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.

Successfully represented large property insurer in Connecticut state court litigation involving a first - and third - party claim for damage caused by the leakage of nearly 400 gallons of fuel oil from an oil tank onto and around the insured property.

One ton of COD (chemical oxygen demand) digested anaerobically generates 350Nm3 of methane, equivalent to approximately 312 litres of fuel oil, or generates about 1,400 kWh of green electricity.

This is an example of what Donald Trump means by «extortion»: North Korea obtains aid in the form of fuel oil by agreeing not to develop nuclear technology.

The United States» bilateral deficit with Thailand is just under the $ 20 billion threshold, and the U.S. runs a bilateral surplus with Singapore (even with Singapore's massive global surplus) thanks in part to large exports of fuel oil.

At CCN, GWE has designed and installed an anaerobic reactor incorporating ANUBIX ™ - B technology for 13 tons of COD throughput per day, as well as a biogas use system in one of CCN's boilers, which allows CCN to save up to 3,000 kg of fuel oil per day.

«One ton of COD (chemical oxygen demand) digested anaerobically generates 350 Nm3 of methane, equivalent to approximately 312 liters of fuel oil, or generates about 1,400 kWh of green electricity.»

One hundred fifty barrels of fuel oil, worth $ 12,600 wholesale, gush into the truck, headed for an oil company that will blend it with heavier fossil - fuel oils to upgrade the stock.

AS Argentinian scientists in Antarctica last week raced to clear an 80 000 - litre spill of fuel oil before the summer thaw, international negotiators failed again to reach agreement on making polluters on the icy continent liable in law for cleaning up their messes.

After initial tests with fuel oil alone, it will burn up to 20 tonnes each day of a 50:50 mixture of fuel oil and chemical agents.

Instead, the commission broke the rockets open with explosive charges, simultaneously igniting a pool of fuel oil beneath them.

In November, the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy helped deliver an emergency load of fuel oil to icebound Nome, Alaska.

My family had a heating business, and when I was old enough I rode with the drivers of the fuel oil trucks on their service calls and eventually I learned to do the calls myself.

A study commissioned by IMO into the «Assessment of fuel oil availability» concluded that the refinery sector has the capability to supply sufficient quantities of marine fuels with a sulphur content of 0.50 % m / m or less and with a sulphur content of 0.10 % m / m or less to meet demand for these products, while also meeting demand for non-marine fuels.

It is likely that new blends of fuel oil for ships will be developed, For example, a gas oil, with a very low sulphur content can be blended with heavy fuel oil to lower its sulphur content.

Four and a half years ago, living in a drafty two hundred year old brick cape farmhouse with my mother in her mid-nineties, we were burning more than six cords of hardwood and more than 2000 gallons of fuel oil keeping the old girls (both my mother and the house!)

The serious environmental impacts of fuel oil and natural gas consumption are largely ignored, partly because most occur upstream during production, refining and transportation.

• Replacement of fuel oil - fired boilers with natural gas • Installation of more energy efficient heating systems • Improvement of the insulation performance of the buildings • Improvement of the HVAC systems and geothermal heating and conditioning.

PMSC), risk assessment process and procedure, navigational error, pilotage and the reasonableness and effectiveness of fuel oil recovery operations.

LMAA arbitration in a dispute arising out of an alleged failure to load a cargo of fuel oil at a sufficient rate due to alleged deficiencies in the vessel's manifolds.

Coverage for loss or damage caused to your property by the sudden and accidental overflow or escape of fuel oil from a tank or apparatus or supply pipes connected to a heating system in use

Chemical analyses of the haze conducted in the 1970s found unusually high concentrations of vanadium, a metal associated with the burning of fuel oil.

Prevailing currents seemed likely to smash the wreck, still carrying 60,000 gallons of fuel oil, into the coral reefs of Johnston Atoll, critical habitat for several endangered species.

The project, which will take up to three years to complete, will increase its capacity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 10 percent, by eliminating all use of fuel oil (except for emergencies) and installing newer, more efficient turbines.

Estimated carbon savings are calculated using the estimated kilowatt hours («kWh»), gallons of fuel oil, million British thermal units («MMBtus») of natural gas and gallons of water saved as appropriate, for each project.