New tanker designs

Article Abstract:

There has been little improvement in oil spill clean-up technology which has resulted in the focus of environmental protection efforts being shifted to spill prevention. Double hulled and double bottomed oil tankers have been considered as a means of preventing crude oil discharge during tanker accidents; however, oil companies believe these tankers are unsafe and uneconomical. The 1990 Oil Pollution Act mandates preventive maintenance of tankers, barges and underground oil transfer pipelines as well as prescribes that tanker designs now be checked by the US Coast Guard.

Prevention, Design and construction, Maintenance and repair, Tankers, Tankers (Ships), Underground pipe lines, Underground pipelines

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Response delays

Article Abstract:

Delays in responding to oil spills have caused large scale pollution of the environment. The Exxon Valdez accident and the Mega Borg explosion were not contained quickly because government agencies disagreed over procedures and because the necessary equipment had to be brought from distant locations. Oil spill response is now determined and coordinated by the US Coast Guard. The major oil companies established the Petroleum Industry Response Organization, an organization which has the equipment and training to contain and clean oil spills.

Evaluation, Pollution control industry, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Disaster, 1989, Petroleum Industry Response Organization

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The oil industry acts

Article Abstract:

The oil industry has renamed the Petroleum Industry Response Organization the Marine Spill Response Corp (MSRC). The MSRC coordinates and manages oil spill clean-up operations. The total cost of financing the operations of the five regional response centers of the MSRC is now $1 billion.

Petroleum industry, Environmental policy, Marine Spill Response Corp.

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