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	Valdez oil terminal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Valdez Oil Terminal is an oil port in Valdez, Alaska, at the southern end of the Alaska Pipeline.
		The terminal was the point of departure for the Exxon Valdez just prior to the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
		There are 18 holding tanks at the terminal, and an average of three or four oil tankers depart from the terminal each day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valdez_oil_terminal (134 words)

	Exxon Valdez oil spill - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez departed from the Valdez oil terminal in Valdez, Alaska (on its 28th voyage), heading south through Prince William Sound, with a full load of oil.
		The animals also were exposed to oil when they dug up their prey in tainted soil Researchers said some shoreline habitats, such as contaminated mussel beds, could take up to 30 years to recover.
		According to reports from the Survivors of the Valdez Oil Spill, Exxon has earned approximately 800 million dollars a year on the money set aside to pay the punitive damages fine, which as of 2001, equalled $6 billion dollars, more than enough to pay the damage award without impacting the financial standing of the company.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill (1226 words)

	USATODAY.com - Nigerian women hold oil workers hostage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The women want the oil giant to hire their sons and use some of the region's oil riches to develop their remote and run-down villages — most of which lack even electricity.
		The women have occupied the terminal ever since, blocking the airstrip, helipad and port that provide the only exit routes from the facility, which is surrounded by rivers and swamps.
		Oil site takeovers are common in Nigeria, the world's sixth-largest producer of oil, and the fifth-largest supplier to the United States.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/07/14/nigerian-women.htm (747 words)

	Suicide Boats Hit Iraq Oil Terminal, 2 Coalition Killed
		Iraq is almost completely dependent on the terminal -- which is in Britain's sector of responsibility in the country -- to export around 1.9 million barrels per day, providing badly needed funding for a country battered by war and violence.
		A senior oil industry official in Baghdad said two oil tankers had been scheduled to load two million barrels each at the Basra terminal around the time of the attacks.
		Northern oil installations, especially the export pipeline to Turkey and the Mediterranean coast, have come under attack since the war to oust Saddam Hussein a year ago, although less frequently in the past few months, oil officials say.
	www.rense.com /general52/terminal.htm (523 words)

	KARACHI: Nazim promises shifting of oil tankers' terminal -DAWN - Local; 10 June, 2004
		Through maps and charts, the city nazim was informed that PSO had built the Zulfikarabad Oil Terminal on the National Highway, where a building had also been constructed at a cost of Rs12.50 million for providing training to driver and other facilities including that of a canteen.
		The city nazim was informed that PSO had 4,000 registered oil tankers, and about 900 trucks and tankers lifted oil from the terminal daily.
		After the meeting, the city nazim made a detailed visit to the Zulfikarabad Oil Terminal where he was informed that after the oil tankers terminal is established, the tankers would save from covering a distance of 80-km, and consequently save on fuel as well.
	www.dawn.com /2004/06/10/local2.htm (854 words)

	US CODE: Title 33,2732. Terminal and tanker oversight and monitoring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This section may be cited as the “Oil Terminal and Oil Tanker Environmental Oversight and Monitoring Act of 1990”.
		Each Association shall be responsible for reviewing policies relating to the operation and maintenance of the oil terminal facilities and crude oil tankers which affect or may affect the environment in the vicinity of their respective terminals.
		(ii) modifications of terminal facility operations and maintenance intended to minimize the risk and mitigate the impact of terminal facilities, operations in the vicinity of the terminal facilities and to minimize the risk of oil spills;
	www.law.cornell.edu /uscode/33/2732.html (2810 words)

	United Kingdom Country Analysis Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, the importance of oil to the UK economy has steadily declined over the past two decades, with oil's contribution to total energy consumption falling from in 41 percent in 1980 to 36 percent in 2002.
		The UK has been a net exporter of crude oil since 1981; according to the British Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the largest destinations of crude oil exports in 2003 were the United States (31 percent), the Netherlands (26 percent), France (16 percent), and Germany (14 percent).
		However, as is the case with the country's oil reserves, most natural gas fields have already reached a high degree of maturity, and the UK government estimates that the country will again become a net importer of natural gas by the end of the decade.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/uk.html (5040 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Philippine President inaugurates modern oil distribution terminal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The President led government officials and key officers of TPPC in pushing the button to officially commence the operation of the state-of-the-art oil terminal.
		Jett Attwood, TPPC president and managing director, described the inauguration of the Bataan Oil Terminal as "another milestone in the history of fuel delivery in the Philippines." He said this is TPPC's way of full support to the Macapagal-Arroyo administration in its effort to improve the country's economy.
		The TPPC, which entered the local oil industry in 1997, is a subsidiary of the oil and gas group TotalFinaElf.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cns11954.htm (286 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Oil terminal opens in Murmansk region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This offshore terminal was designed, accepted and then built between the end of November 2002 and the beginning of May 2003 at the request of the Murmansk Shipping Company.
		The terminal will operate 24 hours a day and rescue ships will be on hand when oil is being transferred in order to avoid oil spills.
		The advantage of the new offshore terminal in the Murmansk Region is that it is located in a bay and protected from the wind.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnr32375.htm (198 words)

	Eilat oil storage terminal, Ashkelon oil storage terminal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The terminal is fed both by the 42" line from Ramat-Yotam and by tankers discharging at the Ashkelon oil port.
		From the terminal the oil is either pumped to the refineries or loaded onto outbound tankers.
		The terminal has ballast water tanks and separators which treat water drained from the system.
	www.eapc.co.il /oil-terminals.html (132 words)

	Alyeska resumes loading oil in Valdez
		The oil tanker terminal had been closed at the request of the Coast Guard on Tuesday night.
		Oil continued to flow south from the North Slope into storage tanks at the terminal.
		Tankers load Prudhoe Bay oil destined for the Lower 48 at Valdez, the end of the trans-Alaska pipeline, which carries 17 percent of the nation's domestic oil supply.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/155031_terminal02.html (307 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Protesters killed at Nigeria oil terminal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hundreds of villagers from the Ugborodo community stormed the Escravos terminal near the oil city of Warri early on Friday and broke into the compound to protest against the lack of development in their village and to demand contracts and jobs.
		ChevronTexaco operates the terminal on behalf of a joint venture with state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. The government classifies oil export terminals as assets vital to national economic security and they are protected by soldiers under instructions to shoot invaders.
		Feuds between oil companies and villagers are common in the vast wetlands of the Niger Delta, which pumps most of Nigeria's 2.3 million barrels per day of oil.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/CE36201A-0F9D-4B43-A5EF-8656AB23743C.htm (553 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Once seen as an alarmist fear, an attack on key Saudi oil terminal could ...
		As much as 80% of the near 9m barrels of oil a day pumped out by Saudi is believed to end up being piped from fields such as Ghawar to Ras Tanura in the Gulf to be loaded on to supertankers bound for the west.
		Ras Tanura and other terminals are heavily patrolled and protected, the energy ministry is ringed by concrete and the streets outside patrolled by tanks and armoured vehicles.
		As for the threat to oil installations, the MEES editor believes they are well guarded, pushing terrorists to attack softer targets such as compounds of western workers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /oil/story/0,11319,1230311,00.html (1423 words)

	Exxon Valdez oil spill
		The Exxon Valdez oil spill was an oil spill, involving the Exxon Valdez, on March 24 1989.
		The Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker, was departing from the Valdez oil terminal (on its 28th voyage) and heading south, through Prince William Sound, with a full load of oil.
		About 11 million gallons (42,000 m³) of crude oil were spilled, affecting 1,900 km of coastline.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/ex/exxon_valdez_oil_spill.html (1140 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Unclarity around start of Russian northern oil terminal construction. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to initial plans, the first stone was due to be laid in the foundation of the new terminal on November 13.
		The terminal will be a part of a major oil-pumping complex in north-European Russia currently under construction.
		Brazauskas pointed out that he was assured that Russia did not intend to build an oil terminal on its territory of the Baltic sea coast.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntr75255.htm (219 words)

	Iraqi Oil Terminal Closed After Attack : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		U.S. military officials were trying to determine the launching point of the unprecedented suicide boat attack on two offshore oil terminals that are the sole outlet of Iraqi crude from the south.
		The Al-Basra terminal was one of two terminals targeted in the attacks.
		The boat bombings were the first maritime attack against Iraqi oil facilities in the Gulf — an apparently new tactic in the Iraq conflict that resembles al-Qaida attacks in 2000 and 2002 against the destroyer USS Cole and a French tanker off Yemen.
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1692029 (266 words)

	Valdez oil terminal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The terminal was the point of departure for the (additional info and facts about Exxon Valdez) Exxon Valdez just prior to the (additional info and facts about Exxon Valdez oil spill) Exxon Valdez oil spill.
		There are 18 holding tanks at the terminal, and an average of three or four (A cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk) oil tankers depart from the terminal each day.
		Since the pipeline became operational in 1977, more than 15,000 tankers of (A slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water) oil have left the terminal.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/va/valdez_oil_terminal.htm (147 words)

	The Daily Herald Newspaper \| St. Maarten/St. Martin - Caribbean
		A shouting match today doesn't necessarily mean a soured relation tomorrow in the world of politics, where allies have been known to become adversaries and the other way around in the blink of an eye, as the prevailing interest of the moment dictates.
		As the biggest employer on the island, the continued presence of the oil terminal is of great socio-economic importance.
		At the same time, Statia Terminals NV has obviously done well over the years and must also realise that it has a lot to thank the island and its people for.
	www.thedailyherald.com /news/daily/h80/edit80.html (469 words)

	Oil terminal in Kulevi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Bank Group considers the Caspian Sea's oil reserves to be at least as large as those in the North Sea, which currently supply about 8% of the world's oil.
		The promotion of oil transit, combined with policy reforms and private sector risk mitigation has given rise to a situation in which the Georgian Government is supporting all oil related projects without calculating the cumulative environmental, economic and social impacts.
		Construction of the oil terminal and oil transit railway will undermine the laudable efforts to establish the National Park and will set a precedent for further violations of international agreements and commitments undertaken by the Georgian Government.
	www.bankwatch.org /publications/policy_letters/2001/wb-kulevi-oil0501.htm (1858 words)

	Oil Deal 'Off', Nigerian Women Say
		Women protesters who have besieged an oil terminal in southern Nigeria for more than a week say they will continue their blockade.
		One of the hundreds of women who have been occupying the ChevronTexaco oil export terminal in Escravos, Nigeria for the past nine days feeds her son Tuesday, July 16, 2002.
		However the women said negotiators for the Chevron oil company were not "sincere" and were not committing themselves to anything by way of agreement.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0717-07.htm (667 words)

	Poverty Spurs Nigeria Oil Standoff
		Women occupying a ChevronTexaco oil terminal agreed Monday to end their eight-day siege after the company offered to hire at least 25 villagers and to build schools, electrical and water systems.
		The inequality between her means and those of hundreds of oil workers nearby fueled the extraordinary, 10-day takeover – which appeared likely to achieve what repeated protests by village men had failed to do.
		Through it all, fever, chills and sharp pains from an undiagnosed illness kept Amushuka, 37, pinned to a crumbling piece of foam padding on her cot in the village of Ugboegungun.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0717-03.htm (948 words)

	Overview of Sullom Voe Oil Terminal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A large oil terminal which receives numerous oil pipelines from several production platforms in the northern North Sea, the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal is located on Calback Ness in the Delting district of the Shetland Mainland.
		The terminal was established in the 1970s to service the North Sea Oil Industry and is operated by BP Exploration Operating Company Ltd on behalf of nearly 30 companies participating in the Brent and Ninian pipeline groups.
		The first oil was pumped from the Dunlin oilfield to Sullom Voe Terminal through the Brent pipeline on 25th November 1978 and five days later the first oil was shipped out of the terminal by the Shell tanker Donovania.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/features/featurefirst1417.html (304 words)

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		Oil operations in the 70,000 sq km Niger Delta, which accounts for nearly all of Nigeria's daily oil exports of 2.5 million barrels, have increasingly become the target of attacks.
		More than 90 percent of oil production in Nigeria is generated by joint ventures with international oil companies in which the government has the majority stake.
		In the face of mismanagement of oil wealth by a succession of Nigerian regimes, restive inhabitants have tended to target the oil companies as the only visible face of government in their remote districts.
	irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=45401&SelectRegion=West_Africa&... (643 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Two killed in Iraqi oil terminal blasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The third boat was intercepted as it approached an exclusion zone around the terminal and there was an explosion soon after occupation personnel boarded it to check.
		It was the first known maritime attack on Iraqi oil facilities since the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
		The oil attacks came three days after near simultaneous car bombings in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, 50km from Umm Qasr, that killed 74 people.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/43617F94-ED23-4205-A538-C3445A61AB0F.htm (308 words)

	Pravda.RU Pandacan Oil Terminal Is Succesfully Worked Out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ordinance 8027 reclassifies the Pandacan terminal area from an industrial into a commercial and recreational zone, in effect requiring the oil majors to remove their facilities from the area.
		Recognizing how greatly the removal of the terminal would impact the supply of fuel products and the general economy, the DOE, city government and the three firms agreed that a phased reduction of the terminal was the most viable means of providing a win-win solution to the matter.
		Oil workers in Nigeria are preparing for their two-day warning strike planned to be implemented on the 23rd of September.
	english.pravda.ru /comp/2002/09/24/37131.html (2247 words)

	Jordanian claims suicide attacks on Iraqi terminal - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		Your brothers with their boats targeted oil tankers in Mina al-Amiq and Mina al-Bakr,” said the statement, which was signed with al-Zarqawi’s name and was published on the Muntada al-Ansar Islamist Web site.
		The statement compared the attack on the Basra terminal to the bombing in 2000 of the U.S. warship Cole in Yemen’s Aden port, which killed 17 U.S. sailors and which was blamed on al Qaida.
		The Basra terminal was repeatedly bombed during Iraq’s 1980-88 war with Iran, when the countries’ armies targeted each other’s oil exports.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4829643 (929 words)

	NOAA's Ocean Service Office of Response and Restoration \| Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
		The tanker was carrying approximately 53 million gallons of crude oil.
		Here, oil from the trans-Alaska pipeline is loaded onto tankers for shipment to West Coast states.
		At this terminal, oil was loaded onto the Exxon Valdez for shipment to Los Angeles/Long Beach.
	response.restoration.noaa.gov /photos/exxon/01.html (178 words)

	Oil Terminal - Brownfields Remediation, South Boston, Massachusetts - Ambient Engineering - Environmental Engineering - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Over its many years of operation under several owners the terminal experienced releases of oil to the ground and some secondary release to the adjacent Reserved Channel of Boston Harbor.
		When heavy discharge of oils to Boston Harbor were observed from the adjacent Storm Sewer, temporary control was achieved by means of floating booms and adsorbents at the mouth of the discharge structure.
		When the sources of the leaks were identified by inspection of the CSO walls, repairs to the structure were made under a Boston Water and Sewer Commission permit.
	ambient-engineering.com /aquaticservices6.html (356 words)

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