Tag: Pipeline Spill
Keystone clean up to take weeks, unsure restart date
Keystone pipeline leaked 5,000 barrels of oil in South Dakota South Dakota’s environmental regulator said the clean up of oil spill on the TransCanada Keystone pipeline in South Dakota could take several weeks, according to a Reuters report. Late last week, the pipeline that carries about 590,000 barrels per day of Alberta crude to US […]
Rover Pipeline spills prompt FERC to ban new drill work on pipeline
Rover Pipeline runs from Pennsylvania to Ontario The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has shut down new drilling on the Rover Pipeline after drilling fluids were spilled in a wetland area in Ohio. Upon completion, the $4.2 billion Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) pipeline will transport 3.25 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day […]
Sunoco pipeline spills gasoline near Pennsylvania river
Sunoco Logistics spills crude more often than any of its competitors, with more than 200 leaks since 2010 (Reuters) – A Sunoco pipeline breach on Friday spilled gasoline in the vicinity of the Susquehanna River in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, environmental authorities said, prompting a utility firm to warn customers to reduce water use as a […]
Brad Wall ‘not satisfied’ with Husky oil spill response
Husky oil spill affecting downstream drinking water supplies By Rod Nickel July 27 (Reuters) – Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said on Wednesday he was not satisfied with Husky Energy Inc’s emergency response to an oil spill into a river that supplies drinking water, and said the western Canadian province needed to consider ways to avoid […]
Louisiana oil spill at Shell undersea pipeline, Coast Guard responds
Louisiana oil spill about 90 miles off Timbalier island May 12 (Reuters) – The United States Guard said it is responding to a Louisiana oil spill from a subsea well-head flow line owned by Shell located about 90 miles off Timbalier Island, Louisiana on Thursday. About 88,200 gallons was reportedly released from the pipeline, the Coast Guard said, adding […]
Firefighters say California oil spill gushed like fire hose ‘without a nozzle’
Key issue in California oil spill is how long it took the company to alert federal government Firefighters investigating a reported petroleum stench at a California beach last month didn’t take long to find a spill, oil was spreading across the sand and into the surf. Tracing the source, they found crude gushing from a bluff like […]
Plains All American Pipeline facing restrictions before line restarts
Plains All American Pipeline leaked oil onto coastline The company responsible for a pipeline that spilled thousands of gallons of oil along the California coast was ordered to take a series of steps before it can restart the line, federal regulators said Friday. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration required Plains All American Pipeline to […]
California oil spill: Governor declares state of emergency
7,700 of 105,00 gallons of leaked oil in California oil spill recovered More than 7,700 gallons of oil has been raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that stretched across 9 miles of California coast, just a fraction of the sticky, stinking goo that escaped from a broken pipeline, officials said. Up to 105,000 gallons […]
Clean up of California oil spill near Santa Barbara continues
California oil spill spans 9 miles of ocean An oil spill that fouled beaches and threatened wildlife along a scenic stretch of the California coast spread across 9 miles of ocean Wednesday as cleanup efforts began and federal regulators investigated how the pipeline leaked. Workers in protective suits raked and shovelled stinky black goo off the […]
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