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Four Minutes in Oil Spill News

September 2, 2010 at 6:45 PM Leave a comment

Oil is good?  It took me all of four minutes to find these stories.  Imagine how many more are out there.

Fuel Tanker Runs Aground in Canadian Waters,

carrying 2.4 million gallons of diesel fuel that risk spilling into the Arctic waters, the Canadian Coast Guard said Thursday.

Another oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico.

Texas Company Working to Plug North Dakota Oil Well:

A Texas company worked Thursday to seal the underground piping of a faulty oil well that has leaked more than 1,100 barrels of crude and water at a drill site in western North Dakota.

The spill happened about 2 1/2 miles southwest of Killdeer and was reported early Wednesday morning, said Lynn Helms, director of the state Department of Mineral Resources.

Helms called it the worst spill in the state’s oil patch since the recent resurgence in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, a process that uses pressurized fluid and sand to break open oil-bearing rock some two miles underground.

Eldridge Execuive Who Responded to the Michigan Oil Spill to Retire:

Elbridge Energy Partners, the company involved in the oil spill in the Kalamazoo River, announced this morning that their Executive Vice President is retiring effective November 1st.

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