Gash Found on Tanker in Del. Oil Spill
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Divers found a six-foot gash on the tanker that leaked 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River, creating a 20-mile-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife, officials said Sunday.
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By Clarissa Aljentera, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 2--A sheen seen off Monterey on Friday turned out to be diesel fuel and was likely dumped the night before.   It was discovered about 10:30 a.m.
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Limited shipping could resume on the  Delaware River south of Philadelphia as early as today after an  oil spill late last week halted vessels, the U.S. Coast Guard  said.
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Coast Guard officials investigating a massive oil spill in the Delaware River said the tanker likely struck a hidden hazard a few hundred feet from shore, according to a published report.
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Oil from a stricken container ship leaked Friday onto a southern English beach and blackened seabirds in the latest mishap for a costly six-month-long salvage operation, officials said.
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For about 40 years, state workers have been dumping saltwater left over from oil production on some North Dakota roads. That's news to the health department, which wants the practice stopped.
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Terrorist attacks on tankers carrying liquefied natural gas into a U.S. port could trigger a fire that could burn the skin of people a mile away and cause "major injuries and significant structural damage" within about a third of a mile, according to a government study released yesterday.
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SWIFT action by Environment Agency staff helped prevent a North Wales river from being badly polluted after a tanker crash.   An estimated 4,000 litres of red diesel spilled into the Afon Elwy, near Pandy Tudur, Llanrwst, last Friday.
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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 area of marine habitat, officials said on Thursday.
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Three ships, including an oil tanker, collided in Newark Bay, New Jersey, near New York City on Thursday, CNN reported.
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A Greek tanker that spilled up to half a million gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River last month apparently gashed its hull on a discarded pipe protruding from the river bottom, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.
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By Bloomberg, AP and Staff Reports  ConocoPhillips had a leak in a pipe at its refinery in Wilmington, Calif., a state government Web site reported Thursday.
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By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 20--The source of a 900-gallon oil spill into Tampa Bay from Port Manatee discovered Monday has been traced to a roughly quarter-inch hole in a transfer pipe that had been leaking for more than a day.
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A tanker truck carrying 7,100 gallons of diesel fuel was taken at gunpoint from a city fuel depot early Friday, authorities said.
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YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK. June 4 (Interfax) - Oil spills have been discovered near two wells operated by Russian oil company Rosneft (RTS: ROSN) in the north of Sakhalin, non-governmental organization Sakhalin Environmental Watch (EVS) said in a press release on Monday.
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Ships were moving slowly into and out  of the Port of Philadelphia on Tuesday after the Delaware River  was partly shut by a crude oil spill last Friday, U.S. Coast  Guard officials said.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - As the search for six victims of a rescue helicopter crash was scaled back, officials on Friday turned to a growing problem stemming from the break up of a cargo ship off Alaska: a major oil spill near a sensitive wildlife refuge.