Third Major Oil Spill In One Week

By Alan with comments April 6, 2013 12:22

In the third major oil spill in a week, thousands of gallons of oil spilled from a pipeline in Texas.

Shell Pipeline, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, shut down their West Columbia, Texas, pipeline last Friday after electronic calculations conducted by the US National Response Center showed that upwards of 700 barrels had been lost, amounting to almost 30,000 gallons of crude oil.

By Monday, Shell spokespeople said inspectors found ?no evidence? of an oil leak, but days later it was revealed that a breach did occur. Representatives with the US Coast Guard confirmed to Dow Jones on Thursday that roughly 50 barrels of oil spilled from a pipe near Houston, Texas and entered a waterway that connects to the Gulf of Mexico?

Another incident in Canada this week caused an estimated 400 barrels ? or roughly 16,800 gallons ? of oil to be compromised in northern Ontario when a train derailed. Originally, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd said only four barrels were lost in the accident.

Source: http://www.alan.com/2013/04/06/third-major-oil-spill-in-one-week/

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