Tag: Plains All American Pipeline
California oil spill caused by pipe corrosion: Feds
California oil spill near Refugio State Beach in May, 2015 LOS ANGELES _ External corrosion on an oil pipeline was the root cause of a leak that spilled more than 140,000 gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast in May, federal regulators reported Wednesday. The spill occurred after pumps on the Plains All American Pipeline […]
Inspection before California oil spill miscalculated corrosion in pipe
California oil spill near Santa Barbara on May 19 LOS ANGELES _ The operator of an oil pipeline that ruptured and spilled more than 100,000 gallons of crude on the California coast this year was ordered Friday to purge a neighbouring line and make repairs so it doesn’t fail. Federal regulators said the line owned […]
California oil spill may have been larger than initially estimated
California oil spill may have been up to 143,000 gallons LOS ANGELES – More than two months after oil from a ruptured pipeline fouled California beaches, documents released Wednesday disclosed that the spill might have been far larger than earlier projected. Plains All American Pipeline had estimated that the May 19 break along a corroded section of pipe […]
Pipeline agency reforms lag may be factor in California oil spill: Lawmaker
California oil spill released 101,000 gallons of oil WASHINGTON – The federal agency that oversees the safety of the nation’s pipelines failed to follow through on congressional reforms that could have made a difference in a May break that created the largest coastal oil spill in California in 25 years, a House committee chairman said Tuesday. In a […]
Refugio Beach reopens July 17 after pipeline leak fouled area
Refugio Beach cleared to reopen by State Parks rangers GOLETA, Calif. – A California beach fouled by an oil spill will reopen to swimmers and campers two months after a pipeline ruptured and spewed thousands of gallons of crude along the coast, officials said. State Parks rangers toured the shoreline west of Santa Barbara on Thursday and […]
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 […]
California oil spill: Beachfront owner files class action against pipeline company
3,000 coastal landowners join in lawsuit over California oil spill A Santa Barbara County beachfront property owner is the latest in a string of people to file proposed class-action lawsuits against the operators of the pipeline that spilled up to 101,000 gallons of oil on the coast last month. Alexandra Geremia’s lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks to […]
Staff at Refugio oil spill site unreachable, company unable to alert feds
Staff at Refugio oil spill trying to build berm to slow oil’s spread As thousands of gallons of crude oil from a ruptured pipeline spread along the California coast, its operator was unable to contact workers near the break to get information required to alert federal emergency officials, records released Wednesday said. Personnel for Plains All […]
Exxon denied use of tanker trucks to haul oil after pipeline break
Exxon oil from three offshore platforms stopped after pipeline break Officials denied a request Tuesday by Exxon Mobil to temporarily use tanker trucks to transport crude oil from offshore wells through Santa Barbara County after a recent pipeline break that has become the state’s largest coastal oil spill in 25 years. The move came on the same day that […]
California oil spill: Records show company assured gov’t spill unlikely
Corrosion likely caused California oil spill A Texas company whose ruptured pipeline created the largest coastal oil spill in California in 25 years had assured the government that a break in the line while possible was “extremely unlikely” and state-of-the-art monitoring could quickly detect possible leaks and alert operators, documents show. Nearly 1,200 pages of records, filed […]
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