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Ecuador controls oil spills in Ecuadorian Amazonia QUITO, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's state-run Petroecuador said Wednesday it had controlled two oil spills in the fields of Ecuadorian Amazonia. The oil company said the spill in the Cuyabeno oil field occurred Monday because unknown people operated the drainage shutoff improperly. About 100 barrels of oil were spilt, 80 of them were immediately recovered and the rest flowed into a marsh. The spill in Guanta well happened because the...
OIL giants Amoco yesterday won an appeal against a pounds 25,000 fine for allowing 6.4 tons of diesel fuel to leak into the North Sea. Appeal judges ruled that a sheriff in Aberdeen had been wrong to convict the firm of breaching the Oil Pollution Act. The spill happened when a diesel tank on a gas-producing platform overflowed. Amoco's lawyers said the spill was caused by a technician's "inexplicable action". (c) 2008 Daily Record; Glasgow (UK). Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.
The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta said over the weekend that it had launched a series of reprisal attacks against the army and that 29 soldiers and six of its own members had been killed in the fighting. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said that close combat involving fast attack boats, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles had taken place at three separate locations in the delta. There was no immediate comment from the military....
20 confirmed dead in south China chemical plant blast YIZHOU, Guangxi, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- Twenty people were confirmed dead from Tuesday's explosion at a chemical plant in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, rescue headquarters said on Wednesday. At 4:30 p.m., rescuers found the last two bodies of the 20 listed missing after the explosion. All were plant employees in Yizhou City. Around 470 special rescue personnel left the scene after the rescue operation ended. All the...
By Len Wells (618) 842-2159 or lenwells@wabash.net It's never good news when a high-pressure pipeline breaks - anywhere. However, when the 20-inch Marathon Oil Corp. crude oil line ruptured near Golden Gate, Ill., on Sunday, the conditions could not have been more favorable in avoiding an environmental disaster. Believe me, it could have been a whole lot worse. The line ruptured north of the tiny Wayne County village, which has a population of just 100. (The town got its name from a...
FIRE crews were called to a fuel spill stretching almost a mile in Stockton. The spill - possibly gearbox or hydraulic oil - ran along Sheraton Street and Grangefield Road. Firefighters were called at about 7.15pm last night and used about 350 litres of dispersant but failed to fully clear the spill and a council gritter was called to spread eight tonnes of sand on the road. It is thought the spill may have come from a large lorry or other vehicle which may later have ground to a halt as...
1st LD Writethru: At least 10,000 gallons of crude residues spill in Ecuador QUITO, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least 10,000 gallons (37,854 liters) of petroleum residues were spilled into a river in Ecuador along the border with Colombia, local media reported Wednesday The accident occurred when a tanker traveling from the industrial region of Shushufindi to the Ecuadoran capital Quito tipped over in the Aguarico river, local TV Ecuavisa reported. The crude spilled over an area of 800...
By BILL MCKEOWN California has given us many wonderful things: Sonny and Cher. Body waxing. "The Real Housewives of Orange County." On Friday -- and continuing through next week -- California is giving us something not quite so delightful: haze. Smoke from more than 40 lightning-sparked fires in north-central California has been blown our way by typical west-to-east wind flows, said meteorologist Steve Hodanish of the U.S. Weather Service in Pueblo. He said forecast simulations indicate...
By Bahr, Emilie It was an appearance about as unfortunately timed as they come. Early July 23, the very day the American Petroleum Institute's Denise McCourt was to arrive at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center hoping to drum up support for expanded offshore drilling among state legislators nationwide, a barge collision on the Mississippi River resulted in the largest U.S. oil spill in nearly a decade. McCourt, membership director for the Washington, D.C.-based oil and natural gas...
NEW ORLEANS - A large fuel spill that has shut down 100 miles of the Mississippi River for four days has had a limited effect on wildlife so far, but officials are worried about fragile wetlands downstream. Almost 800 cleanup workers used containment booms, vacuum skimmers and other equipment Saturday to continue scrubbing oil- coated riverbanks along the nation's busiest inland waterway. A tanker and a barge collided early Wednesday, spilling about 419,000 gallons of fuel oil from...
