In hours, caustic vapors wreaked quiet ruin on biggest US refinery
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on 25 June 2012
In the end, all it took was a small chemical spill - perhaps less than a barrelful - to bring down the newest, mightiest oil refinery in the United States.
Three weeks ago, while workers repaired a minor leak at the Port Arthur, Texas plant owned by Motiva Enterprises, a few gallons a day of ...
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Plains cleans up Alberta oil spill following leak
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on 12 June 2012
Plains Midstream Canada is not yet able to say what caused one of its pipelines to leak as much as much as 3,000 barrels of oil into an Alberta river last week as it focuses on cleaning up the mess, a company official said on Tuesday.
Plains Midstream, a unit of Plains All American Pipeline L...
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Xstrata subsidiary fined $1 million over NT mine fuel spill
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on 6 June 2012
A subsidiary of Swiss mining giant Xstrata is facing a fine of more than $1 million for leaking thousands of litres of fuel at a Northern Territory mine.
McArthur River Mining (MRM) notified the NT Department of Resources in May last year that a leak had been detected from a pipe connecte...
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Ageing oil, gas facilities a health and safety risk: report
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on 14 May 2012
According to a report, oil and gas companies operating in Australian waters tend to fail to recognise at a corporate level the occupational health and safety risks posed by ageing facilities.
The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA), which replac...
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BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico far from over, experts warn
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on 23 April 2012
Two years after the worst maritime oil spill in history, fishermen, scientists, and environmentalists up and down the US Gulf Coast warn that the disaster may be far from over.
Dead dolphins keep washing up on shore in unprecedented numbers.
Oil-coated coral reefs are dying in the deepwater....
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