NEW YORK, March 26 (Reuters) - Between 9 and 18 barrels of
oil spilled into Lake Michigan from BP's Whiting refinery
in Indiana after a malfunction on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard
said on Wednesday.
(Reporting By Elizabeth Dilts)
* Oil firms ask for more standardisation * Sector's shift favours bigger, integrated service firms * Oil firms may delegate more competence By Balazs Koranyi and Gwladys Fouche OSLO, March 26 (Reuters) - On a mission to crush costs,
global oil firms are rewriting the rule
(Adds size of spill, detail on cleanup, changes dateline) By Karl Plume and Edward McAllister Whiting, Indiana, March 25 (Reuters) - Oil leaked from BP
Plc's Whiting refinery in Indiana into Lake
Michigan after a malfunction at a recently upgraded processing
unit on Monday afternoon,
NEW YORK, March 25 (Reuters) - An unknown volume of oil
leaked from BP Plc's Whiting, Indiana, refinery
into nearby Lake Michigan on Monday afternoon, the Indiana
Department of Environmental Management confirmed on Tuesday. The leak started from a cooling water outfall at the
refinery at 5
March 25 (Reuters) - A malfunction at BP's Whiting, Indiana,
refinery caused an oil spill into Lake Michigan on Tuesday
morning, according to
a report on The Times of Northwest Indiana website. The incident was discovered at 4:30 p.m. Monday, according
to the report that quoted company spok
HOUSTON, March 25 (Reuters) - The largest crude distillation
unit at BP Plc's 405,000- barrel-per-day (bpd) Whiting,
Indiana, refinery was back to normal operation following an
overnight malfunction, said a BP spokesman on Tuesday. The malfunction led to the release of crude oil into Lake
M
HOUSTON, March 24 (Reuters) - BP Plc and Husky Energy
were shutting units on Monday at their joint-venture,
BP-operated refinery in Ohio for a planned six-week overhaul,
sources familiar with the refinery's operations said. The overhaul at the 135,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) refinery
involve
RABAT, March 22 (Reuters) - Longreach Oil and Gas Ltd
has started drilling of its Kamar-1 well in Morocco's
Sidi Mokhtar area with a planned depth of 3,500 meters, the
Moroccan Office of Hydrocarbons and Mining (ONHYM) said on
Saturday. Kosmos Energy and British Petroleum have also
started
LONDON (Alliance News) - BP PLC Friday said Lamar McKay, a divisional chief executive, sold 43,000 American Depositary Shares Thursday. Details of the sale are as follows: 29,611 ADSs at USD46.520 per ADS; 5,876 ADSs at USD46.530 per ADS; 4,340 ADSs at USD46.540 per ADS, and 3,173 at USD46.
(Adds BAE Systems comments) LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - Around 40 percent of Scots plan
to vote for independence in this year's referendum, according to
a poll on Thursday which showed a three-point rise in support
for an end to the country's 307-year-old-union with England. The poll
LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) - Around 40 percent of Scots plan
to vote for independence in this year's referendum, according to
a poll on Thursday which showed a three-point rise in support
for an end to the country's 307-year-old-union with England. The poll, carried out by Panelbase, showed