Friday, December 21, 2012

Barge en route to transfer oil from tanker aground in New York: Port

Reuters: Oil trapped in a tanker that ran aground on the Hudson River near Albany, New York will be transferred to a barge on Friday night, the Port of Albany said. The Stena Primorsk, a 600-foot (182-metre) motor tanker, was carrying 11.7 million gallons (under 280,000 barrels) of light crude oil when it lost steering control on Thursday morning and hit land near Stuyvesant, New York, about 20 miles downriver from Albany, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The light crude oil on the tanker was from...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/21/us-oil-tanker-new-york-idUSBRE8BK0RQ20121221?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29
Enclosure: http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20121221&t=2&i=687100040&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CBRE8BK1AX200

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