Word: bbl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shipping lanes and into harm's way. Cousins and finally Hazelwood, who had returned to the bridge, issued contradictory orders. Shortly after midnight, the tanker impaled itself on Bligh Reef, its hull torn by gashes, some thought to be 15 ft. wide. At least 240,000 bbl. of oil, equal to 10.1 million gal., poured out of the wounds...
...year ago and a far cry from the 4,500 functioning rigs in late 1981. Exxon's spending on domestic drilling dropped nearly two- thirds from 1985 to 1987, to $333 million. Oil experts estimate that prices will have to stabilize at no less than $25 a bbl. to encourage a drilling resurgence in the U.S. Many American oil companies have boosted their exploration overseas, where finding oil typically costs $1.50 to $2 less per bbl. than...
...short run, the U.S. would not experience dire shortages. A Commerce Department study found that in the event of war, the country's demand for fuel could be met by domestic production and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Created 13 years ago, the reserve is now up to 515 million bbl., equivalent to about three months' total consumption, stored in salt caverns along the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana...
...eerily, it struck last week, on the very day that the 3,100 residents of Valdez had planned to commemorate the 25th anniversary of another disaster: the great Alaska earthquake of 1964, which sent a towering tidal wave smashing into Valdez, killing 131 people. After taking on 1.2 million bbl. of crude at the Valdez terminal, the southern end of the 800-mile Trans- Alaska Pipeline, the 987-ft. tanker Exxon Valdez headed out through Prince William Sound. Maneuvering to avoid icebergs, the tanker rammed into an ; underwater shoal called Bligh Reef. The vessel's side split open and thick...
...rate of 20,000 gal. an hour, emergency teams found ducks coated with crude and sea lions with flippers drenched in oil clinging to a buoy near the wreck. By the time the leak had slowed to a dribble a day later, an estimated 270,000 bbl. of oil had escaped, producing a slick 8 miles long and 4 miles wide. It appeared to be the largest spill, if not the worst in terms of ecological damage, in U.S. history...