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Wild Well Control was founded by Joe R. Bowden Sr. in 1975 (July 15, 1932 – November 12, 2006). [3] Its main competition was Red Adair and Company. In 1991 it was one of the companies used to cap the Kuwaiti oil fires. Its involvement was the subject of the documentary Fires of Kuwait. In 2001 it was acquired by Superior Energy Services. [4]
A boat with Marine Spill Response Corporation (MSRC), an oil spill removal organization (OSRO), deploys floating barriers known as booms to try to stop further incursion of an oil slick off ...
Plans to restart a pipeline in Santa Barbara County have angered residents worried about an oil spill similar to the massive one near Refugio State Beach in 2015.
The U.S. Coast Guard received the first report of a possible oil spill off the Southern California coast more than 12 hours before a company reported the major leak in its pipeline and a cleanup ...
The Elly well pipeline from the Beta Unit is the source of the 2021 oil spill. The four small islands shown in Long Beach Harbor are artificial islands for oil and gas wells. Commercial divers found the pipeline had been displaced by about 105 ft (32 m) with a 13-inch (33 cm) split along the length of the pipe.
Location: Gaviota Coast, west of Santa Barbara, California: Coordinates: 1]: Date: May 19, 2015: Cause; Cause: Ruptured pipeline [2]: Operator: Plains All American Pipeline: Spill characteristics; Volume: 105,000 U.S. gallons (2,500 barrels): Shoreline impacted: 7 miles (11 km) coated with crude oil; tar balls damaged beaches more than 100 miles (160 km) down the coast [3] [4]: The Refugio oil ...
Crews raced to clean up an estimated 126,000 gallons of crude that leaked from an oil-processing platform off the coast of Southern California. The spill, which has reached beaches and threatens ...
Worst Case Discharge (WCD) is a calculation used by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement to determine the maximum flow rate for an offshore oil well in the event of an oil spill.