Oil And Protecting The Environment
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Protecting the environment while producing, transporting, refining and
marketing fuel is a challenge the petroleum industry must meet every day.
For all of the benefits oil has brought to modern society, risk is
inherent in taking it from the Earth -- in drilling wells, storing fuel
for future us ....
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.... As a result of new operating procedures and research into
advanced technologies, the industry has made tremendous progress in
preventing spills over the past decade.
In 1997, the latest year that Coast Guard statistics are complete, the
volume of oil spilled in U.S. waters declined by two-thirds compared to
the year before, representing the lowest amount recorded since the Coast
Guard began publishing data in 1973. And more than three-fourths of those
spills were under 10 gallons -- less than ....
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