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US-Russia oil supply ties deepen with cargo to Texas
The first direct oil shipment from Russia to the US was lightered last month from a supertanker to ExxonMobil Corp. refineries in Baytown and Beaumont, Tex., in a pilot program by OAO Yukos aimed at developing new markets …
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OIL SPILL HALTED AT TANKER COLLISION SITE OFF NORTHWEST SUMATRA
A breached cargo tank of the Maersk Navigator supertanker , involved in a Jan. 20 collision with another tanker off Northwest Sumatra, was sealed about noon Jan. 29. "Outflow of oil …
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INDUSTRY BRIEFS
… about $204 million in damages to the French government and other French parties as a result of the March 1978 Amoco Cadiz supertanker oil spill (OGJ, Mar. 27, 1978, p. 108). A lower court had ordered Amoco to pay $155 million. Amoco also was ordered …
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MOTHBALLED CANADIAN REFINERIES MARKED FOR REUSE
… including two U.S. partners will participate in a project to convert a mothballed refinery at Point Tupper, N.S., to a supertanker terminal. Meanwhile, a recently mothballed refinery at Balzac, near Calgary, may be sold to Viet Nam. Global Petroleum …
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Kansas refinery starts up coke gasification unit
… Raven undergwent sea trials in advance of its delivery in June to Mobil Shipping & Transportation Co. The 280,000 dwt supertanker was built by Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd.'s Oppama, Japan, shipyard. The Raven is Mobil's second double-hull …
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Cleanup Continues On Downgraded Japan Spill
Diamond Grace supertanker , shown aground on Nakanose reef ..... estimate Crude oil spilled July 2 from a supertanker co-owned by Nippon Yusan KK and ..... of crude oil had spilled from the supertanker . The spill from the Panamanian …
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'Initial results' of Limburg tanker investigation indicate terrorist attack
… 6 off Yemen. The double-hulled supertanker is 2 years old. French media Thursday ..... Supertanker explosion off Yemen now believed caused ..... refinery in Melaka, Malaysia. The supertanker was coming from Ras Tanura harbor in …
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Watching The World: Storing oil in Orkney
… BP PLC, which chartered the Eagle Vienna, sold three Forties cargoes from the supertanker . Just a week earlier, ConocoPhillips was set to load a supertanker with 1.8 million bbl of Norwegian Ekofisk oil, combining three cargoes, probably …
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Rage over Macondo greater than past disasters
… how those incidents were handled without personal confrontations involving national leaders. Exxon Valdez The Exxon Valdez supertanker struck Bligh Reef on Mar. 24, 1989, spilling 260,000-750,000 bbl of crude into Prince William Sound, Alas. It …
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Intertanko: World oil shipping routes 'under threat' from piracy
… the world,” Angelo said. Angelo’s remarks came after pirates off the coast of Somalia captured a Greek-flagged supertanker carrying nearly 300,000 tons of crude oil to the Gulf of Mexico, the second successful attack against an oil tanker by …
