News tagged with oil pipeline

Shell says two new leaks on Nigerian pipeline

Oil giant Shell on Monday said two new leaks had occurred on one of its pipelines in southern Nigeria after similar incidents in recent days blamed on crude theft.

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created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Search is on for source of US Gulf of Mexico oil sheen

The US Coast Guard and oil company experts on Thursday used aircraft and undersea probes to monitor and search for the source of a 10-mile long oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico.

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Under the microscope #13

Matthew Kuo tells us how tiny worm faecal pellets affect how oil pipelines sit on the seabed.

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Part of Keystone XL oil pipeline to go ahead: company

TransCanada Corp announced Monday it would go ahead with construction of part of its Keystone XL oil pipeline that does not require US presidential approval, a stretch from the state of Oklahoma to the US ...

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created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Metadynamics technique offers insight into mineral growth and dissolution

By using a novel technique to better understand mineral growth and dissolution, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are improving predictions of mineral reactions and laying the groundwork ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

US to reject Canada pipeline: reports

The United States will Wednesday reject the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, a politically charged project that is bitterly opposed by environmentalists, news reports said.

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (10) | comments 3

US to study alternate route for US-Canada pipeline

The US government said Thursday it would study an alternate route for a controversial US-Canada oil pipeline, and pushed back its final decision on the project until 2013 -- after next year's presidential ...

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created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Activists push for end to US-Canada pipeline plan

Thousands of protesters rallied outside the White House on Sunday to press US President Barack Obama to scrap plans for a multi-billion-dollar oil pipeline stretching from Canada to Texas.

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created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

US says may miss year-end decision on Canada pipeline

The United States said Wednesday it may fail to decide on whether to issue a permit for a proposed multi-billion dollar oil pipeline stretching from Canada to Texas by the end of 2011 as planned.

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created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

China's CNOOC cleaning up after another oil spill

Chinese oil giant CNOOC said Sunday it has suspended production at a platform off northeastern China after a ruptured pipe leaked crude into Bohai Bay, in the lastest spill to hit the company.

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created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Chevron checking possible leak in Gulf of Mexico

US oil group Chevron said Tuesday it had shut down a pipeline off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico to investigate a "potential leak."

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created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study on how bacteria move could help researchers develop anti-bacterial surfaces

Jacinta Conrad, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston, likens her research into how bacteria move to "tracking bright spots on a dark background."

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Impact statement on US oil pipeline due in August

The US State Department said Friday it expects by mid-August to release a final environmental impact statement on a proposed $13 billion oil pipeline that would stretch from Canada to Texas.

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created Jul 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

Feds say Yellowstone cleanup will take more people

(AP) -- Exxon Mobil Corp. will have to bring in more people to mop up oil from a broken pipeline beneath the Yellowstone River as receding floodwaters reveal new contamination, federal officials said Friday.

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created Jul 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Montana questions Exxon's estimate of oil spilled

(AP) -- Montana environmental regulators have asked Exxon Mobil to justify its estimate for how much oil spilled into the Yellowstone River, citing the company's changing timeline on how long it took to stop ...

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created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0