EARTH 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Surf Zone, Bulk Density, Kelp Forest
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Egyptair jet from paris to cairo crashed, french president says. Oil spill indictment, plains all american pipeline disaster, environmental affects, criminal charges against plains. Pipeline- hot, oil coming from series of 4 platforms offshore (platform holly + 3 more just up the coast) produce oil, drilled down into the earth drawing oil up pumped onshore by pipes. Holly goes to fa(cid:272)ility (cid:271)y ba(cid:272)ara, does(cid:374)"t get refi(cid:374)ed there (cid:271)ut does (cid:271)asi(cid:272) separatio(cid:374)s (water, oil, natural gas) Gets sent to plains all american pipeline, sources of oil all merge together and go up line 901, get to another pump station then get pumped to bakersfield for processing. Pipeline company had responsibility for oil at this point but pipe had corrosion on outside, water can penetrate in causing rust, certain acceptable levels of thinning of pipe, but thinning (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t dete(cid:272)ted. No one knows how much (initial estimates 100,000 gallons but this discharged), about 80,000 recovered out of pool at site itself.
