Barge Carrying Petroleum Product Explodes
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Authorities searched Wednesday for a man believed to be missing after a barge carrying thousands of gallons of a gooey petroleum byproduct exploded, caught fire and then sank in a ship canal.
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Fuel oil was pouring out of a Malaysian-flagged cargo vessel that grounded off an Aleutian island and split into two nearly equal pieces, threatening a sensitive
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OXNARD - A leak of explosive natural gas forced dozens of workers to evacuate an offshore oil platform for hours Thursday but no damage or injuries were reported.
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US crude leapt about $1.50-a-barrel yesterday as petroleum giants evacuated thousands of workers from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Ivan.
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Tests show that a container of a certain size is needed for an effective explosion to blow up an aircraft.
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FARMINGTON -- A tanker truck spilled about 500 gallons of diesel fuel it was hauling after catching fire Saturday on U.S. 89.  About 2 p.m., as the tanker merged from I-15 onto U.S.
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WASHINGTON  - Authorities near Philadelphia battled to contain an oil slick after a Cyprus-flagged tanker on its way to a Citgo refinery spilled 30,000 gallons (114,000 liters) of crude into a nearby river, the US Coast Guard said.
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Fire from a terrorism attack against a tanker ship carrying liquefied natural gas could ignite so fiercely it would burn people one mile away, according to a congressional study
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BEACHES and wildlife in eastern Mexico were covered with oil after an explosion in a pumping station ruptured a pipeline, dumping 5,000 barrels of crude into a river that flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
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PAULSBORO, NJ The Coast Guard now says that more than 473-thousand gallons of crude oil is missing from the tanker Athos I. And now, investigators believe that significantly more oil was spilled into the Delaware
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A tanker carrying about 23 million gallons of diesel oil ran aground Thursday morning off New York City's Coney Island. No oil spill or injuries were reported.
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A Sea Launch Co. rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded Tuesday during launch from an oceangoing platform in the equatorial Pacific.
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Thousands of gallons of a toxic chemical spilled into the Ohio River between Illinois and Kentucky after a barge ran aground, environmental officials said Wednesday.
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At least six injured in petroleum plant blast in NW China    LANZHOU, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were injured Tuesday in an explosion at a China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) chemical plant in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Dozens of people died when a trailer-truck loaded with highly flammable chemicals exploded in a road accident in northern Mexico, Mexican media reported on Monday.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK LOS ANGELES - A rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded Tuesday during launch from an oceangoing platform in the equatorial Pacific.
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The Athos I tanker shown between a dry dock station is listing on the Delaware River near Paulsboro, NJ Saturday, Nov. 27, 2004. On Friday the tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of heavy crude oil into the Delaware