Sentences with phrase «oil disaster in»

If those «professors» have nothing to study about that is more important, than you should be sent to the oil disaster in the gulf.

So I'm glad that the leak might finally be stopped — but assessing and cleaning up the worst oil disaster in US history is another matter altogether.

As they cope with the massive BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the least we could do is keep one of their most important nesting areas safe.

But because the media seems to feel that nobody's interested the aftermath of the 2010 BP spill, the biggest offshore oil disaster in US history, you probably didn't hear about it.

The latest poll, however, shows the opposition snapping back after the offshore oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

This disaster, dubbed the most expensive on - shore oil disaster in US history, devastated the river, leaving it closed for nearly two years.

If he is wise, Cuomo will shake up the leadership of his minerals division now, so he doesn't face a situation like the one confronting President Obama after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico prompted an after - the - fact reorganization of the federal Minerals (Mis) Managament Service.

Jeremy Zilar, one of the remarkable technical wizards at The Times who helped me build Dot Earth nearly three years ago, forwarded a couple of links to Web sites trying novel approaches to conveying aspects of the ongoing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The unfolding oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico shows what can happen when planners don't adequately consider scenarios in girding against «low probability, high consequence» risks.

This includes programs for maneuvering robotic subs (as with the efforts to contain BP's Deepwater oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico) or sophisticated mapping tools for emergency - response crews using mobile devices to assess earthquake damage (as in Haiti).

The explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20, 2010, marked the beginning of the worst oil disaster in American history.

The BP oil spill is already infamous as the worst oil disaster in U.S. history.

Not exact matches

In addition, Mui reported on major international stories, including the Greek financial crisis and Brexit, as well as national disasters such as the BP oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.

When the social scientist and derivatives trader sat down at the same table at a friend's wedding in 2011, they got to talking about their shared interest in «epic failures,» like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy.

In the wake of the BP disaster, Andy Revkin wrote that «the oil disaster doesn't belong to BP, or to President Obama or his predecessor; we all own it.»

And so here we are again — on the brink of another disaster in the wake of plummeting oil prices, rampant OPEC production, and skittish investors.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

«While the fourth quarter was a disaster for both, Chevron got back on track» in the first quarter, said Brian Youngberg, an oil industry analyst at Edward Jones.

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

«These images of oil - coated disasters need to become reminders of a bygone era, not a sign of things to come,» Gatti said in a statement Sunday.

A lot of dirty oil is going to come out of the tar sands, be refined in China and create enough Co2 to push the planet into climate disaster.

If oil drops into the $ 20 - to - $ 30 range, he may soon be dealing with the consequences of an oil sands industry, his government's anointed engine of economic growth, suddenly becoming a commercial disaster on a scale that could be unrivaled in Canada's history.

Although the state had a modest increase in its gas tax in 2017 — less than 1 cent per gallon — it is crude oil prices and natural disasters that determine pricing overall.

JUNE 2012: In a series of reports, Tyee's Nikiforuk details U.S. investigators» damning account of how cultural and procedural failures at Enbridge enabled the Kalamazoo spill to become North America's worst inland oil disaster.

Since the July 2013 Lac - Megantic fatal train disaster and other recent incidents involving oil by rail, Transport Canada has faced questions about whether it adequately addressed safety oversight concerns surrounding the transportation of dangerous cargo, which were repeatedly raised in internal audits.

Those production cuts, aided by the rolling disaster in Venezuela that continues to take crude oil production off the world market, have, according to the IEA, brought down the world's crude oil stocks within shouting distance of OPEC's goal: the five - year average of those stocks.

Fleming said there have been many disasters in the oil industry recently, and this report clearly spells out how the tar sands pipeline project is high risk.

Obama's reign began with him having to deal with one costly disaster after another, SARS, the Gulf Oil Spill, Mortgage collapse, banks and huge car companies nearly going bankrupt and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

And while his stance has certainly mellowed with the years - he apologized for his past comments and joined with churches in 2008 to fight malaria - his suggestion that God may have had a hand in the oil disaster that killed 11 and is threatening the Gulf Coast may take some by surprise.

I tried cooking both prawns and brussels sprouts & rice at the same time but ended up in a slight disaster with frying pan slightly over turning with hot oil on counter top.

Critics of crude oil transportation by rail are in pro-active mode when it comes to disaster preparedness.

The long lines of DOT 111 oil tankers parked outside of the Ezra Prentice complex in Albany are a constant reminder to some residents they are living in the shadow of potential disaster.

Resource - poor Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa's vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural gas imports jumped after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster shut almost all of Japan's nuclear reactors.

The outgoing BP chief was answering questions on the oil spill's implications for the UK, including whether a similar disaster could occur with operations in the North Sea.

BP lost $ 17 billion in the three months to June as it faced huge clean - up costs for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster.

CSX is among U.S. railroads instructed to turn over details regarding volatile crude oil shipments to local emergency responders to assist teams in disaster preparedness.

Additional Riverkeeper maps showing how Lac - Megantic and Casselton - scale disasters would affect areas of the Hudson Valley are available in the Crude Oil Public Outreach section.

«We have also asked the U.S. Small Business Administration to activate all appropriate federal disaster declaration clauses that would enable the SBA to assist the small businesses in the state that will be impacted by the oil spill...

Now that the federal government has restricted fishing in federal waters affected by the Gulf oil disaster, shall we now see the state governments restrict fishing in their jurisdictions?

Besides the environmental disaster that fracking is, and the step backward it represents in the fight to turn the tide in the global climate crisis, we can't allow big oil to come into our state, or any state, to bully citizens and take away their rights.»

Besides the environmental disaster that fracking is, and the step backward it represents in the fight to turn the tide in the global climate crisis, we can't allow big oil and gas to come into our state, or any state, to bully citizens and take away their rights.

When I was involved in the investigation into the Piper Alpha disaster, when an explosion destroyed an Occidental Petroleum oil - drilling platform in the North Sea, killing 167 men in 1988.

A study published Aug. 28, 2017, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds a new dimension to the controversial decision to inject large amounts of chemical dispersants immediately above the crippled oil well at the seafloor during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.

Well, that's it for this episode, get your science news at http://www.ScientificAmerican.com where you can read our ongoing In - Depth Report on the BP Gulf oil disaster.

In fact, the company has found itself at the center of several of the nation's worst oil and gas — related disasters in the last five yearIn fact, the company has found itself at the center of several of the nation's worst oil and gas — related disasters in the last five yearin the last five years.

This disaster is the latest example of a string of accidents that have black - stained the Amazon and occurs within a year of the release of more than 2,300 barrels of oil, also in Loreto.

The findings also could help inform the ongoing public debate about the economic impacts of human - made environmental disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and how much polluters should have to pay in reparation.

On this week's show: Five years of science following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

The devices are about 10 times thinner than a human hair, so presumably you would need epic fleets of them to make a difference in massive oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster.