Oil spill adds to US flood misery
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An oil slick adds to flood problems for thousands of people in the US states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kansas  - Kansas officials said on Monday they were trying to contain damage from a significant oil refinery spill that occurred over the weekend as raging floodwaters wreaked havoc through the southeast part of the state.
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Oil prices have hit a new record near $51 a barrel as a prolonged US production outage following Hurricane Ivan attracted fresh speculative buying.
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PHILADELPHIA Nov 27, 2004 - A tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, creating a 20-mile-long slick that threatened fish and birds, Coast Guard officials said Saturday.
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Crude oil rose and natural gas soared in New York as the approach of Hurricane Ivan disrupted production and tanker shipments in the Gulf of Mexico, where a quarter of US oil and natural gas is pumped.
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Authorities struggled Saturday against adverse weather conditions to determine the extent of an oil spill from a Malaysia-flagged cargo vessel that foundered in frigid waters off Alaska&#39;s Aleutian Islands.
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Residents working in waist-high mud salvaged family photos from washed-out neighborhoods as fresh rains Thursday triggered more flooding, compounding the misery for hundreds of thousands forced from their homes.
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The US Coast Guard was helping to clean up an oil spill in the Delaware River near Philadelphia Saturday, hours after a vessel leaked the crude into the waterway, according to a Coast Guard spokesman.
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Floodwater receded from most sodden neighborhoods in Coffeyville, giving many residents a first, well-orchestrated glimpse Monday of the devastation left by an oil spill during torrential rains that flooded their hometown.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Jennifer Ludden gives an update on a 30,000-gallon oil spill in the Delaware River near Philadelphia and takes note of &quot;Buy Nothing&quot; day.
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Hurricane Ivan, which left a swath of death and destruction across the Caribbean, wrought havoc on oil drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico before rampaging across the Florida and Alabama coast on Thursday.
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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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Hurricane Ivan spared the critical Gulf Coast refining belt, but oil prices rose anyway Thursday on fears a new storm brewing in the Caribbean will delay tankers carrying imported crude to US ports.
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LONDON Crude oil fell from a record high in London on Thursday on speculation the United States may use oil from its emergency stockpiles to keep refineries running after Hurricane Ivan curtailed supplies from the Gulf of Mexico.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, NFLD. -- An environmental assessment panel predicted seven years ago how hard it would be to clean up oil spills from a project off Newfoundland that spilled 170,000 litres into the Atlantic last week.
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THOUSANDS of gallons of heavy-duty oil were pouring from a grounded cargo ship off the Alaska coast last night in a disaster that appears to have claimed six lives and threatens an environmental catastrophe.
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Chinese authorities are battling to clean up after one of the worst oil spills in the region's waters.