Sentences with phrase «with oil tankers»

We recommend the H8 - 5 Fire Door by Hörmann — this design has been providing optimum safety for boiler rooms and rooms with oil tankers for decades.

Cuomo has ordered flags on state government buildings to fly at half - staff Tuesday in honor of 10 Navy sailors, including a New York native, who were killed when the destroyer USS John McCain was involved in a collision with an oil tanker Aug. 21.

The nuclear powered icebreaker NS Yamal, with shark's teeth painted on her bows, left Murmansk to rendezvous with the oil tanker MV Perseverance and escort her along the NSR to her China destination.

Last month, five oil field workers were involved in an explosive accident after their van collided with an oil tanker truck.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

With a fuel duty rise due this summer and the possibility of strikes by fuel tanker drivers, it will be interesting to measure the impact on the oil companies and whether BP and Shell can ensure that any blame attached is shared around equally, rather than disproportionately focused on them.

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.

«If a Saudi tanker is sunk with 2 million barrels of oil, people are going to start worrying about the security of the sea lanes.

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...

Pro-pipeline politicians in Alberta and Ottawa are threatening B.C. with sanctions, lawsuits and even soldiers if we continue to block Kinder Morgan's oil tanker project.

VANCOUVER — The Christy Clark government has asked Ottawa to lift a ban on burning oil to deal with spills, proof that Christy Clark is prepared to do anything to allow a seven-fold increase in tanker traffic on B.C.'s coast, say the...

Indelible memories include entering the engine room of the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz - a Pyranesian vision of a vast chamber lined with weedcovered ladders and companion ways receding into stygian gloom and a close encounter with an octopus concluding with its disappearance into a cloud of black ink.

In a petition filed with the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, AG Eric Schneiderman sought reduced limits on the vapor pressure of oil shipped in tanker cars from the Bakken hydrofrack fields of North Dakota to coastal refineries.

December 2013, West Nyack A train carrying empty oil tanker cars collided with a truck at an at - grade crossing in West Nyack, Rockland County.

With more oil being shipped via train from the Bakken region in North Dakota and adjacent Canada to the East Coast, and more accidents involving those tanker cars, safety concerns have been growing.

If a tanker splits its hull and dumps oil into the sea, trained teams show up with specialized gear to begin the process of stanching the flow and cleaning up the spill.

Three tanker trucks arrive here on peak production days, loading up with 500 barrels of oil made from 270 tons of turkey guts and 20 tons of pig fat.

The biggest oil spill in U.S. history sparked improvements in tanker construction and navigation technology, along with better crew training, but the danger remains

However, tens of thousands of leaky auto engines whizzing over already polluted urban environments can't compare with the damage done to a pristine environment by a single oil tanker such as the Exxon Valdez, which spilled 10 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.

Current cleanup technologies — such as mechanical skimmers or membrane filters, which are maneuvered with boats and oil tankers — mainly remove oil from the surface but miss those denser droplets, Azwell says.

There are shots and scenes here that overwhelm with a sense of the kinetic, uncontrollable force of nature, as the stern section of a massive oil tanker, which has been ripped in two by the waves and a storm, is tossed around like a child's toy in a bathtub.

The storm ripped through an oil tanker called the SS Pendleton, literally breaking it in half with over 30 men trapped inside.

While necessarily simplifying (and, at times, unnecessarily Hollywood - izing) the true story, the film adheres to the basic facts: in 1952, with a nor» easter battering the seas off Cape Cod, two oil tankers break in two more or less simultaneously, dividing the Coast Guard's resources in mounting rescue efforts.

The day the tankers were delivered they had a long term lease with Shell Oil.

This led to large numbers of tankers loaded with oil sitting idle in ports acting as floating warehouses.

When a barge dangerously laden with logging equipment, including a tanker truck of diesel fuel, spilled its load in the heart of the world's best known orca habitat — the Ecological Reserve at Robson Bight — last August 20th, whale lovers were outraged, environmentalists dismayed, the public alerted, and even the oil industry took note.

Before there was no real reason to have one in your garage, but with the added emphasis on cross-country racing those trucks and American muscle cars that nobody really wants can now find a home barging across the landscape before drifting vaguely left at the barnyard like a turbocharged oil tanker.

However, it does improve as we step move nearer the present with notable additions including Graham Sutherland's torpedoed oil tanker and Paul Nash's photographs of wrecked aircraft and rural decay.

Assume I've replaced my car with a new plug - in hybrid, and to eliminate extraneous factors assume that they're otherwise identical — same weight, CdA, rolling resistance, & c. I've replaced an energy path of oil well — oil tanker or pipeline — refinery — tank truck — gas pump — IC engine with one that's 0.7 * (coal mine — railroad — power station — transmission line — battery charging — electric motor).

The double - ended tanker of course, is only needed till the ice finally melts away, and no longer interferes with supplying oil.

And with the way tar sands oil sinks in water, a tanker or pipeline spill in the area would be devastating for the region.

1:19 p.m. Updated An inventive neighbor, Sandy Saunders, just proposed a simple stopgap: Use an off - the - shelf large dome - like fabric structure over the seafloor zone with the leaks, with a hose to pump the accumulating buoyant oil to tankers.

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The spill, estimated to be roughly 4,000 barrels (or 168,000 gallons), began after a tanker vessel carrying heavy fuel oil collided with a cargo ship in Galveston Bay, an estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

But now, the survival of this rarest bear on the planet is menaced by oil giant Enbridge's plan to send hundreds of tankers a year laden with tar sands oil through their pristine habitat.

In April 2014, Russia's Arctic oil drilling platform Prirazlomnaya, pictured here, loaded a tanker with the world's first major shipment of oil from above the Arctic Circle: 490,000 gallons from the Prirazlomnoye field in the Barents Sea, 38 miles off Russia's northwestern coast.

Lummi Nation Member and commercial fisherman, on increased oil tanker ship traffic that will come with a proposed tar sands pipeline in the Pacific Northwest.

Historically, about half of the crude oil that comes out of the Trans - Alaska Pipeline System has been shipped by tanker to refineries in California (the other half is sent to refineries in Washington state, with a much smaller fraction sent to foreign markets).

Oil tanker spills would likely become a bigger risk with any pipelines that go to west coast tidewater.

Fill a tanker with oil and / or surfactant and spill it on the ocean.

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.

The local air district and Phillips 66 still refuse to provide any information regarding the details of the cause of the Sept. 2016 Yamuna Spirit spill, nor as to the source of oil intended to be delivered with the increased oil tanker traffic to the Phillips 66 SF Bay refinery.

Each day the world uses the energy equivalent of the oil carried in 182 oil tankers, each with a 200,000 - ton capacity, or the energy output of 370,000 Hoover Dams.