Diesel Tanks And Oil Tanks

A barge owned by Marine Floats with a 5-ton deck crane sank in the harbor. The sunken barge has leaked an unknown amount of fuel, causing an oil sheen on the water, Ecology says.

Ecology, the U.S. Coast Guard, Tacoma Fire Department and Washington State Maritime Cooperative also responded to a diesel spill at the mouth of the Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma on Saturday.

The 195-foot fishing tender, “Eastern Wind” spilled an unknown amount of diesel while transferring fuel within the vessel – from one tank to another. The vessel’s owner, Trident Seafood, had placed boom around the vessel prior to fueling as is its practice, so the boom was already in place when the spill occurred. The recoverable diesel was contained within the boomed area.

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Oil spill in Gig Harbor after barge sinks; another spill in Tacoma - Northwest Cable News

Cables atop a crane go straight into water at the site of a sunken 75-foot vessel as a containment boom is tossed off a barge toward it today in the Puget Sound off Seattle. Coast Guard Petty Officer Nathan Bradshaw says there are 300 gallons of diesel and 30 gallons of motor oil onboard the vessel in sealed tanks. The sinking was reported at about 8 a.m. while the vessel was tied to the barge about 300 yards off shore. There are no injuries.

SEATTLE  A construction company and private contractor were working today to contain an oil sheen the size of two football fields around a 75-foot boat that sank near Seattle. The vessel is an old World War II landing craft that was being used as a workboat with a barge at a bulkhead project in Puget Sound near the citys West Seattle neighborhood, said Diede Janel, office manager of Waterfront Construction Inc. of Seattle. The boat was loaded with rocks Thursday and workers arriving this morning saw it go down at about 7:30 a.m., Janel said. No one was injured. The company has salvage divers on the scene and officials were hoping the vessel could be raised by a crane on the barge, she said. A cleanup contractor has also been hired, and a boom has been deployed to contain the oil. Coast Guard Petty Officer Nathan Bradshaw said there are 300 gallons of diesel and 30 gallons of motor oil onboard the vessel in sealed tanks. The oil spill hasnt been catastrophic, and because diesel thins quickly, there may not be enough on the water for officials to recover, said Katie Skipper, spokeswoman for the states Ecology Department.

OLYMPIA  A Thurston County judge has ordered the Olympia School District to pay $14,000 for withholding a public record. Superior Court Judge Paula Casey ruled in August that the district violated the Washington Public Records Act by failing to disclose a draft letter to an attorney during litigation on behalf of the family of a 6-year-old girl who was molested by a school bus driver. The Olympian reports the judge ordered the district Wednesday to pay the money to Tacoma lawyer Darrell Cochran. He is seeking $2.25 million from the district for the family of the 6-year-old. District spokesman Ryan Betz said Thursday that the district mistakenly did not include the draft letter among the 544 pages originally provided to Cochran after he filed a lawsuit.

SANDPOINT  A North Idaho landlord accused of trying to tear down a house while his tenants were still inside will stand trial Oct. 25. The Bonner County Daily Bee reports 56-year-old Paul Fagerlie Finman faces three counts of aggravated assault in Bonner County. He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he used a tractor to dismantle the house last October while a woman and her two children were inside. No one was injured. Finman claims the family had been evicted and he didnt know anyone was in the house when he started tearing it down on Oct. 8, 2010. But a judge two weeks ago denied a motion seeking to dismiss the case, noting that an eviction order gave the family until Oct. 31, 2010 to leave.

NW today: 75-foot vessel sinks in Puget Sound - The Spokesman Review

A drilling rig in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas is seen in this Petrohawk Energy Corporation handout photograph released to Reuters on July 14, 2011.

NEW YORK/HOUSTON (Reuters) - On paper, it's the kind of arbitrage deal that oil traders dream of: buy crude at $85 a barrel in Oklahoma, truck it 550 miles south, and sell it to a Gulf coast refiner for $110.

In practice, the crude trucking trade - a measure of last resort as pipelines, trains and barges are maxed out -- has proved tantalizing but elusive. Just ask Robert "Bo" Collins, the former NYMEX president and hedge fund manager, or the teams at global energy trading titans Mercuria and Vitol.

Collins, who presided over the home of the benchmark U.S. oil futures contract a decade ago, has tried in vain to organize a fleet of trucks to haul crude out of Cushing, Oklahoma, down to the U.S. Gulf Coast, where he could sell it for $25 a barrel more.

Insight: Oil convoy blues: trucking game foils crude traders - Reuters

New Brunswick drivers will be forced to dig deeper into their wallets when they fill up their tanks after the price of regular gasoline jumped 4.5 cents per litre on Thursday.

The Energy and Utilities Board increased the maximum price for regular gasoline to 129 cents per litre up from 124.5 cents per litre last week.

The energy regulator sets maximum prices each week based on the average prices of commodity trading on the international markets during the previous week.

Other regulated fuels also saw price increases, although smaller than the jump in gas prices, when the EUB reset the maximum prices on Thursday.

Gas prices jump 4.5 cents per litre - CBC.ca

Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc is fighting to contain a fire that has shut a hydrocracker at its oil refinery in Singapore, the largest operated by the company.

Four hundred employees have been evacuated since the blaze started at a pump house at the Pulau Bukom site, 5.5 kilometers (3.4 miles) offshore Singapore's financial center, at about 1:15 p.m. local time, company officials said. Units such as the hydrocracker were closed as a precaution, rather than because of damage, and Shell is able to meet contractual obligations on deliveries, said Lee Tzu Yang, the country chairman.

Shell, Europe's largest oil company, operates crude- distillate units at Pulau Bukom with a total capacity of 500,000 barrels a day, according to its website. The site also houses an 800,000 metric ton-a-year ethylene plant and a 155,000 ton-a- year butadiene-extraction unit. Singapore, where Shell has operated for almost 120 years, is Asia's biggest oil-trading and storage center.

Gasoline and diesel fuel were burning at the facility, Mavis Kuek, a company spokeswoman, said at a news conference about nine hours after the blaze started. No one was hurt in the fire, the company said.

Shell Fights Blaze in Singapore at Its Biggest Refinery - San Francisco Chronicle