Tag: Refugio Oil Spill
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 […]
Trucks will move oil stored after California pipeline spill
17 million gallons of oil stranded after California pipeline spill LOS ANGELES _ Exxon Mobil Corp. won approval Monday for its plan to use trucks to move more than 17 million gallons of oil stranded in storage tanks after a California pipeline spill in May. The approval came despite concerns from an environmental group that highway […]
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 […]
Exxon Mobil halts drilling off Santa Barbara after spill crippled pipeline
Drilling at three offshore Exxon Mobil platforms stopped The shutdown of a pipeline that spilled up to 101,000 gallons of crude on the Santa Barbara coast forced Exxon Mobil Corp. to halt operations at three offshore platforms because it couldn’t deliver oil to refineries, the company said Tuesday. The company temporarily ceased operations last week because […]
California oil spill costs reach $69 million
California oil spill costs up to $3 million per day The cost of cleaning up the oil spill that fouled beaches last month on the California coast has reached $69 million so far, an official of the pipeline company said Wednesday. Costs are running at $3 million a day, and there is no timetable for when […]
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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