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Not long after the explosion and the other accidents at Texas City in 2005, however, BP's image in the U.S. was further tarnished by the near-sinking of the semi-submersible oil platform Thunder Horse PDQ in July of the same year [167] and, more crucially, in March 2006 when an oil pipeline spill was discovered in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, while ...
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian public sector oil and gas company, headquartered in Mumbai. It is India's second-largest government-owned downstream oil producer , whose operations are overseen by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas .
In August 2010, the Texas Attorney General charged BP with illegally emitting harmful air pollutants from its Texas City refinery for more than a month. BP has admitted that malfunctioning equipment led to the release of over 530,000 pounds (240,000 kg) of chemicals into the air of Texas City and surrounding areas from 6 April to 16 May 2010.
Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY) is one of the country's largest oil and gas producers. It recently increased its exposure to the oil market by acquiring CrownRock in a $12 billion deal. That ...
Near her home, Thomas points out Texas' largest coal-fired power plant. "It's the oldest thing you can be burning in our neighborhoods. It's dangerous," Thomas said.
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City lights, however, are easily visible on the night side of Earth from orbit. [27] The Big Bang model does not fully explain the origin of the universe. It does not describe how energy, time, and space were caused, but rather it describes the emergence of the present universe from an ultra-dense and high-temperature initial state. [28]
While Texas gained 668,000 new residents between 2021 and 2022, it also lost nearly half a million people, with 494,077 people moving out of state that year, according to the US Census Bureau.